- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:51:16 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Well I'll be darn'ed. I never thought this would work It's well formed, but I'm not sure that it is valid. Valid XHTML depends on obeying rules that can't be specified in DTDs. You can't of course, represent a CDATA section in this way, and you will still have gone through a translation from transfer character set to UCS-4 and from UCS-4 to the display font encoding. Personally, I see no hardship in using entities (not escapes), but the other logical way of doing this is to include a plain text resource as the contents of an object element (this relies on your browser honouring MIME media types, which is something that has to be assumed here, as that's what the standards require; discussion of the deliberately broken behaviour of a market leading browser is off topic here!)
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