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Re: Benefits of polyglot XHTML5

• From: Jesper Tverskov <jesper.tverskov@gmail.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:17:31 +0200

David Carlisle wrote:

> ..., however more useful in a ployglot context is to not place the
> entire script in a comment but just to place a CDATA section start tag
> in a (javascript) comment and not place the script inside a comment.
> <script>
> \\<![CDATA[
> a < b
> \\]]
> </script>
> works identically in html and xhtml, and is just banned in ployglot as
> the parse tree is not identical, even though the only difference is two
> javascript comments ignored by the javascript processor.

How can you write "however more useful in a polyglot context" and then
end up saying: "and is just banned in polyglot..."?

Does it mean that we should use it in polyglot anyway or what?

Cheers
Jesper Tverskov
http://www.xmlplease.com

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