XHTML complient coding

[pkcidstudio]

I am looking to make this bit of code XHTML compiant. The problem is that it is seeing the --> as the closing comment to the intial <!-- any thoughts on how this can be solved?

<!--[if lt IE 7]>    <!-- adsfasdf -->  <![endif]-->

I was thinking this might work...

<![CDATA[
<!--[if lt IE 7]>    <!-- adsfasdf -->  <![endif]-->
]]>

but i could not.

[Twey]

Hm, tricky one. You could just use the <comment></comment> tag, which is now unsupported in just about every browser except IE.

However, a more pressing question is: why? IE can't read XHTML anyway, so why are you bothering with the conditional comments?

[pkcidstudio]

Screen readers have a hard time reading code if it is not compliant. The current project this is for runs everything through XML.spy and if there are any concerns then a red flag is posted. I'll try what you suggested, if any other thoughts feel free to share.

[Twey]

Rather than XHTML and XML.spy, I would suggest HTML (4.01 Strict) and the validator. Since you're also serving this to IE, it appears apparent that you're serving it as text/html. Thus, it's not actually being (or shouldn't actually be) parsed as XHTML by any user agent, browser or screenreader; you're effectively serving up invalid HTML, not XHTML at all.