- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:29:15 +0200
- To: "Dave Raggett" <dsr@w3.org>
- Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
* "Dave Raggett" <dsr@w3.org> wrote:
| Unfortunately, current HTML browsers don't recognize CDATA marked
| sections, and furthermore they expect script elements to have
| CDATA content, and hence expect < and & to be unescaped.
| The XHTML 1.0 standard therefore recommends you move your scripts
| to external files. The onmouseover and other event attributes
| are however ok, as browsers will deal with entities in attribute
| values.
| I am uncertain as what HTML Tidy should do about this problem.
| If it wraps the contents of a script element in a CDATA marked
| section, it will stop the pages working in existing browsers.
This workaround should meet all possible needs:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- --> <![CDATA[ /> <!--
document.write("<p>foobar<\/p>");
// --> <! ]]>
</script>
regards,
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