David Woolley wrote: >> The XMP element works just like I want it to, but I haven't seen that >>element in a spec... hmm... ever? Its been awhile, at least. > > > That's because it's impossible to specify in an SGML DTD. It's a hack. It *is* possible to specify <xmp> in an SGML DTD. (Whether it can contain HTML code is a different matter. [1]) SGML DTDs can specify element content to be CDATA, and that's exactly how <xmp> is defined. [2] HTML 4.0 defines <script> and <stylesheet> as CDATA elements. This is why most markup constructs are not recognized within these elements--why '<' and '&' don't need to be escaped in embedded scripts and why apparently commented out code may not be thrown out by the parser. [3] [1] http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/cdata.html#SECT6 [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt Section 5.5.2.1. [3] In <stylesheet type="text/css"> <!-- h1 {text-align: center} --> </stylesheet> The entire string <!-- h1 {text-align: center} --> gets passed to the CSS parser.Received on Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:46:40 GMT
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