- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:03:42 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julien Royer <eldebaran@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Julien Royer wrote: > > I don't understand the restrictions defined for the content of script > elements: > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#restrictions-for-contents-of-script-elements > > script being a raw-text element, it can't contain the "script-end" > production > (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#cdata-rcdata-restrictions). > > Why do we need such a complex ABNF for the content of script elements? Unfortunately for historical reasons the parsing rules for <script> blocks are really obscure and can lead to some really strange results. For example: "<script><script></script>" closes at the </script> "<script><!--</script>" closes at the </script> "<script><!--<script></script></script>" closes at the _second_ </script> Since we're basically stuck living with these silly rules (they're needed to parse legacy documents), we have the complex ABNF you refer to to prevent authors from trying to write stuff that doesn't work right. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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