Re: Bug in Parser (about comments)

Calle Aasman (md4calle@mdstud.chalmers.se)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:17:53 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Gisle Aas wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.970626155712.518D-100000@scooter.mdstud.chalmers.se>,
>  Calle Aasman writes:
> 
> > another thing: it refuses to treat a tag like this:
> > <font face="Arial", "Helvetica">
> > 
> > 
> > as a font tag (or any tag at all), it just treats it as common text :/
> > whole cnet got full of these tags so when I run the parser I get normal
> > code all mixed up with fon-tags :/
> 
> Does this syntax really work in Netscape and IE?  Is common outside cnet?
It doesn't change font in NN3.x for Solaris...but the document looks
allright otherwise.

> The HTML ought to look like this:
> 
>    <font face="Arial, Helvetica">
yup.


> > any idea what it can be?
> 
> As soon as the parser find the "," outside the quotes it concludes
> that this can't possible be a start tag and it will treat it is normal
> text.
is there some way to make it treat everything inside the < > as a tag?
I'm not interested in any info inside the font-tag, I just want to get rid
of the tags.

all best,

/Calle

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