CSS comment "/*===*/" causes error

#26863

When my CSS file contains this comment, …
/*===*/
PD4ML reports an error and ignores the entire CSS file in the HTML-to-PDF conversion.

I turned on debug info, and I see the following output and error in my debugger console. Why is PD4ML removing the initial “*” in the comment? The original CSS file does contain the “*”.

It looks like PD4ML has a comment parsing problem. What do you think?

I am using PD4ML 385 Pro (eval).

Console output …

/== LAYOUT ==*/
td.layoutCellSimplified{
vertical-align: top;
}

/== HEADER ==*/
.contentReportTitle.headerText{
font-size: 13px;
}

... LOTS OF CSS LINES ...

org.w3c.css.sac.CSSException: Encountered "/" at line 1, column 1.
Was expecting one of:
<EOF>
<S> ...
"." ...
":" ...
"*" ...
"[" ...
"::" ...
<HASH> ...
"<!--" ...
"-->" ...
"@import" ...
"@page" ...
"@media" ...
"@font-face" ...
"@charset" ...
<ATKEYWORD> ...
<IDENT> ...

at com.steadystate.css.parser.SACParser.parseStyleSheet(SACParser.java:60)
at org.zefer.html.doc.css.d.new(Unknown Source)
at org.zefer.html.doc.css.c.o00000(Unknown Source)
at org.zefer.html.doc.PD4MLHtmlParser.buildDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML.o00000(Unknown Source)
at org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML.render(Unknown Source)
at org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML.render(Unknown Source)
at org.myOrg.myCode.PDFConverter.doConvert(PDFConverter.java:289)

#29380

It seems to be something wrong with the third-party CSS Parser project library (ss_css2.jar). We’ll check if ss_css2.jar can be fixed with reasonable efforts.

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