Re: The interpretation of script

David Carlisle scripsit:

> but that's the point: you then need totally different javascript (or  
> cdata in comment hacks) depending on whether you are serving  
> /application+xml or /html. Which negates much of the "dom consistency"  
> design of the rest of the system.

You can have DOM consistency or textual consistency in such cases,
but not both.  If you have plain-text content (JavaScript or not) in a
script element, you need to escape it when delivering as XHTML, and not
escape it when delivering as HTML.  This is no different from a raft of
other points.

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