Markdown comments

[John Gruber]

Jacob Rus <jrus at hcs.harvard.edu> wrote on 9/18/06 at 7:05 PM:


> Let's please stick to this philosophy, and not complicate matters.  If 

> authors can't handle -- inside comments, and the browser chokes, it is 

> most certainly not markdown's fault, and any change we make here to 

> original comments (at least of those i've seen) will be confusing and 

> non-reversible.


This is how I'm leaning. Because Markdown won't fix other invalid XML constructs, either -- i.e. invalid XML constructs *outside* comments.

So, anyone who wants to pass untrusted Markdown-generated XHTML
through a validating XML parser is going to have to do their own
sanity checking/cleanup pass anyway, and fixing "__" strings in
comments will be the least of their potential problems.

-J.G.