- From: Albert Lunde <Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 20:35:24 -0500 (CDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
David Perrell wrote: > > Ping : > > Can the CDATA content definition be changed to accommodate the > treatment of content as an implicitly marked section? Whether it's a > parsing nightmare must be debatable, since both NSN v2 and MSIE v3b2 > apparently treat SCRIPT content as such, excepting an initial comment > start. The problem is not so much writing a huristic parser that works "most of the time", but coming up with a consistent formalism that is reliable. One either has to stay within the rules of SGML _or_ produce a formal description of how to go outside them. Without a formalism, it's just a pile of hacks. (I'm currently unimpressed by Javascript: the server administration web pages generated by a demo version of the Netscape server periodically crashed a copy of Netscape 2.02 we were using to access them. If Netscape can't get robust interoperability among it's own products, I don't have much hope it will be useful in a wider forum.)
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