- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:55:01 -0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: Christian Smith [SMTP:csmith@barebones.com] > > I realize that using this in an XHTML document would create something > not supported by the validator or by a current HTML renderer, but is it > valid XML to use a CDATA section in an attribute value if that attribute > is defined as having a content model of CDATA? > > [DJW:] No. Attribute CDATA is not the same as CDATA sections in as much as entities are expanded, but it is still not parsed for elements and directives. The syntax definition permits: 1) entity references; 2) any character except the character used to quote the string, <, and &. It doesn't recgnize anything else. Note that section 4.4.2 forbids sneaking mark-up into parameters using general entities. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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