Re: <script> for non-script content

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Philip Taylor wrote:
> 
> http://quickstarts.asp.net/Futures/ajax/doc/components.aspx uses
>   <script type="text/xml-script">
> for embedding XML which gets interpreted by some other JavaScript code. No UA
> could ever process that XML natively like a proper script, since it would
> conflict with the JS's handling of the XML.
> 
> [...]
> 
> In the absence of a better solution, and in the interest of paving the cowpath
> (i.e. adopting people's current solution to the problem), <script> should be
> accepted for this use

Done.


> "In this case, the type attribute must be present and set to a MIME type 
> for which user agents probably won't ever implement support."

I've no idea how to test for that, or how to specify it.


> "XHTML documents should not use the script element in this way, as 
> techniques such as namespaces and CDATA sections allow better 
> solutions."

I haven't included this.

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