- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:56:32 +1000
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Quoting Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au>: > >>> I think conformance checkers should not allow '</' in elements whose >>> content model in HTML 4 was CDATA. >> >> >> Agreed. That is how HTML 4 validators currently work. > > And also how no browser works. That's irrelevant in this case. The question is about whether or not it is valid for authors to use "</" within elements containing CDATA, which it is not, regardless of how browsers should actually handle the error. > This point was raised before by the way: > <http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2005-January/002993.html> For the purpose of error handling, it would be acceptable to define that an erroneous "</" within does not close the element, but that doesn't make its use by authors any more valid and should be picked up by any decent conformance checker. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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