- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:31:10 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
- cc: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
On Wednesday, December 6, 2000 at 19:30, david.woolley@bts.co.uk (Dave J Woolley) wrote: > [DJW:] No. > > Naked &'s and <'s are not permitted in attribute > values, and XML directives are definitely not > recognized in that context. > > See > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#sec-common-syn>, > production number [10]. > > Whilst it is just conceivable that some version of XHTML > has extended ALT to allow it to include XML text for > recursive expansion, such a change would not be understood > by a general validator, because it requires knowledge beyond > the content of the DTD, and would not be backwards compatible, > because of the need to double escape < when one doesn't > want interpreted as the start of a tag. Ok, but how does this jive with the definition of CDATA sections: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#sec-cdata-sect 2.7 CDATA Sections [Definition:] CDATA sections may occur anywhere character data may occur; they are used to escape blocks of text containing characters which would otherwise be recognized as markup. CDATA sections begin with the string "<![CDATA[" and end with the string "]]>": I realize that using this in an XHTML document would create something not supported by the validator or by a current HTML renderer, but is it valid XML to use a CDATA section in an attribute value if that attribute is defined as having a content model of CDATA? -- Christian Smith | csmith@barebones.com | http://web.barebones.com He who dies with the most friends... Is still dead!
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