Re: escaping escaping

On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 10:47  PM, fantasai wrote:

>
> David Woolley wrote:
>>>  The XMP element works just like I want it to, but I haven't seen 
>>> that element in a spec... hmm... ever?  Its been awhile, at least.
>> That's because it's impossible to specify in an SGML DTD.  It's a 
>> hack.
>
> It *is* possible to specify <xmp> in an SGML DTD. (Whether it can
> contain HTML code is a different matter. [1]) SGML DTDs can specify
> element content to be CDATA, and that's exactly how <xmp> is defined.

But because the CDATA section ends at the first occurence of </ any 
time you close an "element" within the xmp, you end the CDATA section.

Jim

Received on Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:52:49 UTC