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>[Simon St.Laurent] >>but it would be a heck of a lot easier to be able to >>declare <!ELEMENT SCRIPT CDATA> > [Tim Bray] >Well, it would if the SGML CDATA element idea actually worked. But it >doesn't, because the contents of a CDATA element are terminated by >any <, or is it </, I forget at the moment, but anyhow, you can't, >in practical terms, use CDATA elements for anything useful. If you >could, they'd be in XML. > >For now, stick with <![CDATA[ ... ]]> - anybody who can't implement >this properly is a bozo. -T. > Steady on! Marked sections have their own magic terminator "]]>". The is no foolproof mechanism involving a magic terminator string comments,. PIs, CDATA MS, CDATA declared content all suffer to varying degrees. The Unix HEREIS document concept adddresses similar problems. It allows the terminating string to be specified on a case by case basis. If SGML allowed such a specification at the start of a CDATA marked section then it would be possible to avoid the premature termination issues without resorting to entity based evisceration of the magic terminiating string. Sean Mc Grath sean@d... Digitome Electronic Publishing http://www.digitome.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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