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Re: CDATA strangeness

• To: "Ramin Firoozye" <ramin@w...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: CDATA strangeness
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:55:04 -0400
• In-reply-to: <NDBBLNCOMCPLKABNJBLKOEBAGDAA.ramin@w...>
• References: <NDBBLNCOMCPLKABNJBLKOEBAGDAA.ramin@w...>

At 2:45 PM -0700 8/5/02, Ramin Firoozye wrote:

>There's a fairly well-known web-site that returns:
>
><!--[if IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=1;</script><![endif]-->
><![if !IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=0;</script><![endif]>
>...

This is not well-formed XML, not even close. The problem is the <! 
outside the comment. If the site claims this is XML, then the site is 
wrong. However, possibly the site is only serving HTML, not XML or 
XHTML.
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