Re: A bug in the validator...

At 10:09 PM 5/26/1999 , Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
>As you can see it's a simple JavaScript that improves the "this page
>validates"-code so that you don't have to change it for every page.

Out of curiousity, why not use http://validator.w3.org/check/referer
for this?

Anyway, last time this came up, Liam Quinn wrote
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/1999JanMar/0035.html)

BEGIN QUOTE:
>From <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#idx-CDATA-1>:
'Although the STYLE and SCRIPT elements use CDATA for their data model, for 
these elements, CDATA must be handled differently by user agents. Markup 
and entities must be treated as raw text and passed to the application as 
is. The first occurrence of the character sequence "</" (end-tag open 
delimiter) is treated as terminating the end of the element's content. In 
valid documents, this would be the end tag for the element.'

So you need to escape your </tag>:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> 
<!-- 
document.write ('<some really long tag '); 
document.write ('with lots of data><\/tag>'); 
// --> 
</script>
END QUOTE

Hope this helps.

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Received on Thursday, 27 May 1999 02:13:27 UTC