Re: <script> for non-script content

On Dec 22, 2007, at 00:09, Philip Taylor wrote:

> It may also be used to embed arbitrary textual data in the document  
> when user agents are not expected to execute that data, for example  
> to be processed by another script.

If we allow the above...

> XHTML documents should not use the script element in this way, as  
> techniques such as namespaces and CDATA sections allow better  
> solutions.


...we shouldn't include a "should" like that in order to achieve DOM  
consistency[1] between the serializations. (Of course, in the XHTML5  
case to retain hand-editability properties, the choice of syntactic  
escaping sugar can be CDATA.)

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#dom-consistency
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