- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-validator-0008@earth.li>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:41:46 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
- Cc: "Lincoln D. Stein" <lstein@cshl.org>, Brock Murch <bmurch@seas.marine.usf.edu>
At 2003-06-13T13:44-0400, Brock Murch wrote:- > Basically the XML validator chokes on comments inside the <script> tag with > xhtml. If there is a open <!-- to hide the script... (placed there via the > CGI.pm module) and later a decrement is used (ie var this-- ) the parser > calls it a "invalid comment declaration" I have saved a copy of the script > output as a static page here: > To make the page pass the parse test I only need to do remove the <!--comments > tags-->: The validator is correct - you are not allowed to put "--" inside an XML comment. (Even in (SGML) HTML it would be wrong in this case.) In XHTML the content of the script element is #PCDATA, not CDATA (since XML doesn't have the latter), so all markup is treated normally. In particular, you do indeed want a CDATA section so that you don't need to escape markup characters all over the place; but you do not want to put the script inside <!-- -->, because in XHTML's script element that really is a comment. You may wish to consider using <script src="..." /> instead. Tim Bagot
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