[whatwg] [html5] html:style parsing

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, L. David Baron wrote:
> 
> STYLE and SCRIPT elements have similar parsing rules in tag-soup HTML, 
> where everything is treated as text until </style> or </script>.  This 
> is why you see an alert with stuff that looks like tags in:
> 
> data:text/html,<style><b><i></style><script>alert(document.getElementsByTagName('style')[0].firstChild.data)</script>
> 
> or that script like:
> 
> <script>
> document.write("<b>foo</b>");
> </script>
> 
> actually works.

Yes, I am aware of this. :-)


> SGML says something slightly different (IIRC, that the element ends at 
> the first "</", and if the thing that follows isn't the tag name then 
> the document is wrong), but it is based on an underlying SGML concept (a 
> content model of "CDATA" in the HTML4 DTD for both elements (different 
> as an element content model than as an attribute value type), rather 
> than "#PCDATA").

Indeed.


> If the spec is already clear on this, then perhaps nothing needs 
> changing; I was just responding to the quoted text.

I believe the spec is unambiguous about this, yes.

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