Re: (too) special markup (was: Re: XHTML 2.0 considered harmful) from David Woolley on 2003-01-15 (www-html@w3.org from January 2003)

From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:07:00 +0000 (GMT)
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <200301150707.h0F770e01911@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

> Except the fact that code should be usable as is, ie with no need for 
> entity resolution and no "<" detection until the closing tag of the code 
> section is hit.

That is a limitation of SGML and XML.  It's even more of a limitation
of XML, as the CDATA section has to be marked explicitly.

Received on Wednesday, 15 January 2003 02:52:05 UTC