- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:05:13 -0500 (EST)
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Dave J Woolley wrote:
> The one question that this leaves is whether SGML
> CDATA attributes have all entity references expanded.
References are expanded. The confusion arises from the fact that CDATA in
attributes is different from CDATA sections.
See <http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/topics.html#CDATA>
Example
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<HTML lang="en-CA">
<TITLE>test</TITLE>
<DIV CLASS='"'></DIV>
calum[1418]$ nsgmls test2.html
ALANG TOKEN EN-CA
[...]
(HTML
[...]
(TITLE
-test
)TITLE
)HEAD
[...]
(BODY
AID IMPLIED
ACLASS CDATA " <-- Key line showing it worked
[...]
(DIV
)DIV
)BODY
)HTML
C
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<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
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