Re: "<" and ">" within text nodes from John Cowan on 1999-04-16 (www-dom@w3.org from April to June 1999)

From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:09:40 -0400 (EDT)
To: rayw@imall.com (Ray D. Whitmer)
Cc: LWatanab@JetForm.com, www-dom@w3.org
Message-Id: <199904162009.QAA21230@locke.ccil.org>

Ray D. Whitmer scripsit:

> During output, a text node may encode <, >, and & as &lt;, &gt;, and &amp;.  
> This is not ad-hoc.  This is how it is done.

Agreed.

> Likewise a CDATASection may
> contain arbitrary text, and may encode "]]>" as "]]><![CDATA[>".

This can only arise if the CDATASection was created or modified by the
application, which means that two CDATASection nodes will be created
if the document is read back in.

I think you need one more "]]".

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

Received on Friday, 16 April 1999 16:12:48 UTC