Re: <META NAME="..." CONTENT="...">

Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com> wrote:

> HTML 3.2 defines this [attribute declared value] as CDATA and says:
>
>    SGML entities in PCDATA content or in CDATA attributes are expanded by
>    the parser, e.g. &#233; is expanded to the ISO Latin-1 character decimal
>    233 (a lower case letter e with an acute accent). This could also have
>    been written as a named character entity, e.g. &eacute;. The & character
>    can be included in its own right using the named character entity &amp;.
>
> ISO 8879-1986 (SGML) appears to say that CDATA, unlike RCDATA, is not
> allowed to contain entities.  Can anyone shed light on this apparent
> anomaly, please?


Yes.  The CDATA keyword does not mean the same thing in this
context as it does in other contexts.  See

	<URL: http://www.art.com/~joe/sgml/cdata.html >

for more details...



--Joe English

  joe@art.com

Received on Friday, 21 February 1997 13:33:42 UTC