HTML output method: SCRIPT and STYLE escaping

• From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
• Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:17:18 -0700 (MST)
• To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200302130717.h1D7HIkh077093@chilled.skew.org>

XSLT 2.0 section 20.3 says:

  The html output method should not perform escaping for the content of
  the script and style elements.

According to HTML 4.01 section B.3.2, "</" within the content of a
SCRIPT or STYLE slement should be escaped.

It also indicates that unencodable characters appearing in a SCRIPT or
STYLE element "must" be escaped according to the conventions of the
script or style language's syntax -- they cannot be written as character
references. This is a bit unreasonable to impose on an XSLT processor;
nevertheless, it should be acknowledged. Processors should be given the
option of performing such escaping, and a fallback behavior (of emitting
a character reference anyway, I presume) should be defined.

Mike

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Received on Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:17:20 UTC