- From: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:24:38 -0500
- To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, www-html-editor@w3.org
On 12 Aug 1997 Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie> wrote: > [..] > if browser makers had ever bothered to RTFM they would have found the > CDATA marked section which lets you do exactly what you want. > > I doubt anyone is going to introduce a new element for this now. But > XML will allow you to use CDATA marked sections: > > <![cdata[<h2>A heading</h2>]]> It wasn't so much that browser makers didn't read the docs; they just made HTML readers (buggy & incomplete ones at that), not SGML+ HTML readers. If the specs clearly noted the use of CDATA, INCLUDE, IGNORE etc. there'd have been support added. Which comes to mind. These and other SGML markers should be _explicitly_ discussed in the HTML 4.0 specification. Rob --- Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl (wlkngowl@unix.asb.com) (Se habla PGP.) http://www.wusb.org/mutant/
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