[whatwg] Common Subset
Alexey Feldgendler
alexey at feldgendler.ru
Sat Dec 9 03:38:28 PST 2006
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:15:45 +0600, Michel Fortin
<michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
> Another noteworthy problem with the common subset about scripting is
> that it's really impractical to write some idioms. You can't have any
> instance of "<" or "&" in a script without throwing the document outside
> of the common subset: HTML requires them to be unencoded, XHTML requires
> them to be in a CDATA section or escaped as < and &. The CDATA
> solution would probably work in HTML, although it'd make the document
> non-conforming.
The HTML5 spec could somehow officially bless CDATA only when used like
this:
<script>//<![CDATA[
...
//]]></script>
It would not harm because it is already interoperable. But it seems
somehow stupid to define that <![CDATA[ and ]]> are only allowed inside
<script> after "//".
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Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>
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