Re: PHP code only allowed in XHTML 5?

Leif Halvard Silli On 09-07-22 19.52:

> Olivier GENDRIN On 09-07-22 16.26:
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Smylers<Smylers@stripey.com> wrote:
>>> Leif Halvard Silli writes:
>>>
>>>> Suppose one wants to validate a page that embeds PHP, but that one
>>>> wants  to do so /prior/ to the execution of the PHP script:
>>>>
>>>>        <?php Print "Hello, World!"; ?>
>>> How can that be a meaningful thing to do?  What if the PHP script emits
>>> something which causes an error, such as misnested tags?  The
>>> conformance checker would be giving the author the impression that the
>>> page is conforming, yet what gets sent to the browser clearly isn't.
>>
>> You could have the same arguments about a (java)script that could emit 
>> bad html.
> 
> Indeed.


An example: Nick pointed me to appendix B of HTML 4. Section B.3.2 
takes up the same problem w.r.t. <script> [1]. It says that this 
is illegal,

     <SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
       document.write ("<EM>This won't work</EM>")
     </SCRIPT>

whereas this is legal,

     <SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
       document.write ("<EM>This will work<\/EM>")
     </SCRIPT>

But in Validator.nu, both variants validates ... That's how long 
one has gone in order to support JavaScript ...

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes#h-B.3.2
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Wednesday, 22 July 2009 22:24:55 UTC