Author: giecrilj
Description:
Steps to reproduce:
Enter A<!>B into Sandbox.
Expected results:
AB displayed
Actual results:
A<!>B displayed
Explanation:
By the W3C HTML parser specification, the empty directive <!> acts as a token separator.
Examples:
Procter&<!>Gamble
Use <<!>I> for terms
{{template|{}<!>}}
Workaround:
use <!---->; lengthy.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-lex/
That feature was removed in subsequent revisions of HTML. Compare:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.2.5
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4
SGML has a lot of cool features, and I'd like to see some of them implemented in wikitext, such as empty end tags </>. But this is not required for an HTML parser. Also, <!> is not valid XML and so not valid XHTML.
In any case, wikitext is not HTML, and does not support all HTML features. This should be considered a feature request, not a bug report, and certainly should not have a failing parser test.