Re: PHP code only allowed in XHTML 5?

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> Thomas Broyer On 09-07-22 23.45:
>>
>> See this Live DOM viewer demo [1] (compare the second and first
>> paragraphs, in WebKit; this sample doesn't demo this behavior in IE)
>
> Your demo [1] confirms that it is the unpaired quote character that is the
> problem, both in IE and in Webkit. Both IE and expects the PI to end at the
> first ">". However, the unpaired quote character means gets IE and Webkit to
> postpone looking for the ">", and send them on search for the pairing quote
> character instead. Thus, they do not, as I think you said somewhere earlier,
> prefer "?>" over ">". For instance, this explains the treatment of the 2nd
> and 3rd paragraph in IE.

Actually, WebKit (tested in Safari 4 and Chrome 3) looks for either
the pairing quote character *or* "?>" (see how the second paragraph is
parsed in [1] compared to e.g. the fourth; also, change the demo to
end the <!--comment--> with ?> and see how "R" now appears in the DOM)

>> [1] http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/182

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Thomas Broyer