- From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@imc.exec.nhs.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:40:33 +0100
- To: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Carl Morris wrote:
>
> | ><pre>
> | >PROCEDURE frob
> | >BEGIN
> | > IF silly <> foolish THEN
> | > WRITELN("Ooops.");
> | >END
> | ></pre>
> | >
> | >is not legal because of the "<>".
> |
> | That's perfectly legal from what I understand. CDATA entries are
> only
> | terminated by </[a-z]
OK, perhaps I could have found a better example, say "1<EM" or
something, which starts an emphasised text tag, but doesn't complete it.
>
> better you all check 3.2:
>
> -----
> The PRE element can be used to include preformatted text. User agents
> render this in a fixed pitch font, preserving spacing associated with
> white space characters such as space and newline characters. Automatic
> word-wrap should be disabled within PRE elements.
>
> Note that the SGML standard requires that the parser remove a newline
> immediately following the start tag or immediately preceding the end
> tag.
>
> PRE has the same content model as paragraphs, excluding images and
> elements that produce changes in font size, e.g. IMG, BIG, SMALL, SUB,
> SUP and FONT.
> ---
>
> It seems to be that PRE is just a special case of the other block
> elements... nowhere was CDATA mentioned... I instead like the fact of
[BTW, I mentioned PCDATA, not CDATA.]
Look at the DTD for the *formal* definition. Cougar says:
<!ENTITY % pre.exclusion "IMG|BIG|SMALL|SUB|SUP|FONT">
<!ELEMENT PRE - - (%text)* -(%pre.exclusion)>
%text is defined elsewhere as:
<!ENTITY % text "#PCDATA | %font | %phrase | %special | %form">
Note the PCDATA in the definition of %text.
Chris
Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 11:41:11 UTC