Report an html comment inside an open tag

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A <!-- written where an attribute belongs had three different outcomes, none of them useful: read as tag type arguments (INVALID_TAG_TYPES) before the first attribute, as attribute type parameters (INVALID_ATTR_TYPE_PARAMS) after a bare attribute name, and — after a whitespace-terminated attribute value — consumed as a less-than operator, so <div class="a" <!-- note --> id="b"> parsed as class=("a" < !--note) plus note, label and --> as attributes, with no error at all.

<!-- now terminates an unenclosed attribute value the way </ already does in checkForOperators, and ATTRIBUTE hands a <!-- back to OPEN_TAG rather than reading it as type params, so every attribute position routes to a single INVALID_HTML_COMMENT error pointing at the comment. // and /* */ inside an open tag are unaffected, and a <!-- inside a string, a template string, a regular expression literal or an enclosed expression is still just text.

This came out of marko-js/marko#3976, which worked around it in the compiler by scanning each open tag's source for a <!-- outside strings and JS comments. That heuristic could not see regular expression literals, so <div hidden=/<!--/.test(s) /> was rejected; here the parser's own REGULAR_EXPRESSION state makes that case correct for free, and the compiler can drop the scan.

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The parser adds the exported INVALID_HTML_COMMENT error code. Attribute and expression parsing stop treating <!-- as attribute syntax, type arguments, operators, or values. Open-tag parsing reports the targeted error. New fixtures cover standard and concise syntax, comments between attributes, comments inside open tags, and regular expression attribute values. A changeset documents the behavior.

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src/states/EXPRESSION.ts (1)

423-436: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add regression fixtures for the type-argument paths.

The supplied fixtures cover direct open-tag and attribute handoff, post-value lookahead, concise syntax, and protected regular-expression/string content. They do not cover <!-- after a tag type argument or an attribute type parameter. Add both cases to verify this EXPRESSION handoff.

As per coding guidelines, **/*: HTML parsing must recognize content and string placeholders, and allow JavaScript expressions as attribute values.

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In `@src/states/EXPRESSION.ts` around lines 423 - 436, Add regression fixtures
covering HTML comment handoff after a tag type argument and after an attribute
type parameter, exercising the EXPRESSION logic around lookAheadFor and the
relevant tag/attribute parsing paths while preserving existing concise syntax
and protected content coverage.

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In `@src/states/EXPRESSION.ts`:
- Around line 423-436: Add regression fixtures covering HTML comment handoff
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