RE: XHTML's reception

No problem with the ]] and -- sequence, but wouldn't the <./ sequence make
it a bit of a pain to include eventual end tags like <./td> in the script...

- Kayjey -


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Clover Andrew
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Onderwerp: Re: XHTML's reception


> however he omits the --> ending that (i think i'm right in saying)
> browsers like IE2 require

Actually, there was no <!-- around the CDATA, so an ending wasn't
required; I was hoping indeed that tag-soup munchers would see the
]]> as the end of the <![CDATA unknown-SGML-magic "tag". Come to
think of it, though, this causes a problem in that you can't get a
'>' character into the script without it also ending the unknown-tag
on pre-script browsers. Which is a bit harsh.

I offer, then, this even more aesthetically questionable solution:

  <script type="text/javascript"><!-- // --><![CDATA[ // ><!--
    (scripting)
  // --><!]]></script>

Which I think should work on XML parsers and tag-soup browsers,
with only the sequences "--", "</" and "]]>" taboo in the scripting.
It works on everything I've tried here, except of course Mozilla
which uses an XML parser but fails to understand CDATA marked
sections altogether. Ah well...

-- 
Andrew Clover
Technical Consultant
1VALUE.com AG

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