- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:23:58 +0200
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Dec 22, 2007, at 00:09, Philip Taylor wrote: > It may also be used to embed arbitrary textual data in the document > when user agents are not expected to execute that data, for example > to be processed by another script. If we allow the above... > XHTML documents should not use the script element in this way, as > techniques such as namespaces and CDATA sections allow better > solutions. ...we shouldn't include a "should" like that in order to achieve DOM consistency[1] between the serializations. (Of course, in the XHTML5 case to retain hand-editability properties, the choice of syntactic escaping sugar can be CDATA.) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#dom-consistency -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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