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Re: <![CDATA blocks

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:30:54 -0400
Message-ID: <4682F32E.9030408@inkedblade.net>
To: Arron Eicholz <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com>
CC: "Elika Etemad (fantasai@inkedblade.net)" <fantasai@inkedblade.net>, "public-css-testsuite@w3.org" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org> 

Arron Eicholz wrote:
 > Are those blocks necessary in the template? From what I can tell they are not required to
 > validate. The only time they are necessary is when you have a < or & character within your style
 > block. Since this is typically not the case can we eliminate the <![CDATA sections and keep the
 > template simple and mention that the style block could have a <![CDATA section as appropriate.
 >
 > This also simplifies our HTML to XHTML conversion issues that our team is currently facing.

You can leave them out. I think it's better to leave it in the template for
people writing new tests, but it isn't required by the scripts, and many
existing tests don't have it.

~fantasai
Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 23:31:30 UTC

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