- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:23:32 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>
> 1. What counts for "script source" if the inline XML contained within
> the SCRIPT tag is invalid, assuming that the document is HTML or the
> document is XHTML and the embedded invalid XML code is within a CDATA
> section so that the containing XHTML document is valid?
Could you give an example of what you mean? Maybe we are misunderstanding
each other. I don't see how you can have any inline XML in text/html
<script> (except, I guess, if another script generates it using the DOM),
and ill-formed XML in an XML document causes the parser to abort long
before we get to the script processing.
> 2. Why don't you say that the "script source" for "text/javascript" is
> the AST? How would declaring the "script source" to be the embedded
> text break XML-based script languages? The interpreter can parse the
> XML text itself, can't it?
(AST?) The whole point is that if the script is XML, there's no text to
parse -- it's already a DOM.
> 3. In general, I am asking that XML be treated just as all other
> script types, unless you allow XML data in a SCRIPT element, where the
> execution of such data means creating a new XML document and attaching
> it to the SCRIPT element as a property for other scripts to peruse.
> This is how it works in Internet Explorer. Of course, such a script
> cannot be used to handle events in the containing document.
>
> Example:
> <SCRIPT ID=M TYPE="text/xml" ><root /></SCRIPT >
> <SCRIPT TYPE="text/vbscript" ><!--
> MSGBOX TYPENAME(DOCUMENT. GETELEMENTBYID("M"). XMLDOCUMENT),, "XML
> DOCUMENT"
> REM --></SCRIPT >
There's no XML there, at least not in the sense used by the HTML5 spec.
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