Re: [VE][79] Error Message Feedback

Hi Scott,

Short answer: you're probably better off calling an external script 
than struggling with the necessary escaping when embedding scripts 
within HTML.

slightly longer answer follows...

On Jul 30, 2004, at 12:57, Scott Eade wrote:
> I don't mind so much that the JavaScript variable assignment is being 
> examined for valid mark-up

This feels like a misunderstanding: the validator does not read within 
scripts just because that may be a fun thing to do, but because it is 
the way it is supposed to parse the document.

> , but if it is then it would be nice if the opening tag was also 
> detected.  The more correct thing to do is to probably not validate 
> JavaScript variable assignments (or better still validate them as 
> stand alone fragments).

I am sure you read
>  <http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-javascript>.

which points to 
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#script which 
states:
[[ the first occurrence of "</" followed by any letter is considered 
the end tag for the SCRIPT element ]]

You'll need to escape any instance of </ in your scripts.

-- 
olivier