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RE: <XML:SCRIPT>

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <SimonStL@c...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sun, 12 Jul 98 19:34:35 UT

>You can always put them inside a CDATA marked section or escape the markup
>characters--that's normal XML stuff. You can also put the script outside
>the document in a data entity or use something like Action Sheets.

I understand CDATA sections; I'm just depressed and fairly cranky that people 
still consider them a worthwhile tool that deserves regular use.  Yecch.  To 
think at one time I thought hiding JavaScript inside comments to shield it 
from old browsers was ugly.

We'll all be doing it; a lot of us will just be wondering what genius came up 
with it.  It would have been so much more convenient if the language designers 
hadn't chosen to interpret '<' as less than and '>' as greater than, but I 
suppose it was an innocent mistake on their part...

Simon St.Laurent
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