Re: possible bug in HTML::Parser comment handler

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At 15:28 11.01.01 -0500, you wrote:
>It seems that the parser is not properly detecting multi-line HTML
>comments.  I was trying to print out the dtext of a html document and
>noticed that comments kept showing up in the output.  Upon further
>examination, the single line comments were being ignored but ones like
>this:
>
><!--
>td {font-family: Arial,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;}
>-->

Well, the content model of the style element is CDATA, your "comments"
may look like comments but they are no comments in HTML and SGML
terms. That's not a bug.
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