Purpose / Goal

This PR fixes a bug where if a comment in the doctype definition contains '<' or '>' it throws an error. The XML specification allows '<' and '>' in comments, and does not note an exception excluding them in the DTD.

Closes #530

Benchmarks

Before

fxp v3 : 47776.15215500227 requests/second
fxp : 30512.79096797974 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 33437.923151138326 requests/second
xmlbuilder2 : 10620.38965853095 requests/second
xml2js  : 8749.365823529228 requests/second

After

fxp v3 : 47832.232365539996 requests/second
fxp : 30937.34839987414 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 33804.982961890804 requests/second
xmlbuilder2 : 10637.245964526057 requests/second
xml2js  : 8782.803299604513 requests/second

Type

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• [x]Bug Fix
• [ ]Refactoring / Technology upgrade
• [ ]New Feature

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