HTML 4.0 and SGML ... RTFM? (was Re: XMP)

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

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Received on Tuesday, 12 August 1997 10:28:01 UTC