Patrick Moloney wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. > As I said in my original post the comments are on the first lines of the > included file and are HTML comments. I'll have to look closer at comment > syntax - I see there are "empty comments" and issues with pairs of > double hyphens. > > My overall code worked well with 2 comment lines, then had issues with > the third. I eventually removed my third comment (no problem) then > copied my 2nd comment as the 3rd (problem returns). > I had some double hyphens "--" which seemed to cause problems sometimes. > I'm also thinking that it is seeing pairs of "--" that are causing > issues in odd numbers (half-pairs) only. > > I'll have to look closer. By definition, A comment declaration starts with <!, followed by zero or more comments, followed by >. A comment starts and ends with "--", and does not contain any occurrence of "--". This being said, depending on how you do it, some browsers will get it wrong, so to keep it simple: An HTML comment begins with "<!--", ends with "-->" and does not contain "--" or ">" anywhere in the comment. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
