- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:20:01 -0700
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > < >> ? ? ? 1. The specification defines the term "script source" to mean >> either the text or the infoset, depending whether the script is >> text-based or XML-based. ?What is the script source for type text/xml >> then? > > Assuming you mean an internal script, the children of the <script> > element. > > >> What happens when the XML is invalid? > > Assuming you mean in an XHTML document, the parser would have failed long > before the <script> element was completely parsed and executed. > > If you mean a text/html document, then I don't know which XML you mean. > > > >> ? ? ? 2. Why doesn't "script source" mean the text of the script in all >> cases? > > Because that would break XML-based scripting languages. > > >> ? ? ? 3. Microsoft Internet Explorer supports XHTML as "text/xml", >> although it does not support XHTML as "application/xhtml+xml". ?But I did >> not mention XHTML anywhere in my question. ?OTOH, any XML makes a SCRIPT for >> IE - a "data script". ?Or did you mean a "data script" to be necessarily >> plain text? ?I fail to see it specified. > > I have no idea what you are asking. > > >> ? ? ? 4. So, the question is whether such data scripts are allowed to be >> loaded externally. ?AIUI, they are not allowed. ?AFAIK, they are supported, >> at least in MSIE. > > I'm not aware of any UAs implementing an XML-based scripting language, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms766512%28VS.85%29.aspx Now you are. Garrett
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