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…a charset declaration git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@597 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Feb 16, 2007 · 09066da · 09066da
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@@ -28994,7 +28994,12 @@ function receiver(e) {
         '&lt;!--')
 
        <dd>
-        <p class=big-issue>skip comment</p>
+        <p>Advance the <var title="">position</var> pointer so that it points
+         at the first 0x3E byte which is preceeded by two 0x2D bytes (i.e. at
+         the end of an ASCII '-->' sequence) and comes after the 0x3C byte
+         that was found. (The two 0x2D bytes might be the same as the those
+         in the '&lt;!--' sequence.) If no such byte is found before the <var
+         title="">n</var>th byte, abort this "two step" algorithm.</p>
 
        <dt>A sequence of bytes starting with: 0x3C, 0x4D or 0x6D, 0xe5 or
         0x65, 0x54 or 0x74, 0x41 or 0x61, and finally one of 0x09, 0x0A,
@@ -29022,7 +29027,10 @@ function receiver(e) {
        <dt>A sequence of bytes starting with: 0x3C 0x3F (ASCII '&lt;?')
 
        <dd>
-        <p class=big-issue>skip bogus comment</p>
+        <p>Advance the <var title="">position</var> pointer so that it points
+         at the first 0x3E byte that comes after the 0x3C byte that was
+         found. If no such byte is found before the <var title="">n</var>th
+         byte, abort this "two step" algorithm.</p>
       </dl>
 
      <li>Move <var title="">position</var> so it points at the next byte in

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -26723,7 +26723,13 @@ function receiver(e) {
        <dt>A sequence of bytes starting with: 0x3C 0x21 0x2D 0x2D (ASCII '&lt;!--')</dt>
        <dd>
 
-        <p class="big-issue">skip comment</p>
+        <p>Advance the <var title="">position</var> pointer so that it
+        points at the first 0x3E byte which is preceeded by two 0x2D
+        bytes (i.e. at the end of an ASCII '-->' sequence) and comes
+        after the 0x3C byte that was found. (The two 0x2D bytes might
+        be the same as the those in the '&lt;!--' sequence.) If no
+        such byte is found before the <var title="">n</var>th byte,
+        abort this "two step" algorithm.</p>
 
        </dd>
 
@@ -26751,7 +26757,10 @@ function receiver(e) {
        <dt>A sequence of bytes starting with: 0x3C 0x3F (ASCII '&lt;?')</dt>
        <dd>
 
-        <p class="big-issue">skip bogus comment</p>
+        <p>Advance the <var title="">position</var> pointer so that it
+        points at the first 0x3E byte that comes after the 0x3C byte
+        that was found. If no such byte is found before the <var
+        title="">n</var>th byte, abort this "two step" algorithm.</p>
 
        </dd>