Re: Content of Script element getting wrapped by CDATA

> If output is set to html and remove the script template, then XSLT
> (saxon at least) does not escape the output.

there is no way t escape anything inside an html script element as
neither < nor & is recognised as special markup. the only markup that is
recognised as markup is </script> script in html acts like a CDATA
section acts in XML.

> But if the output is set to XML, then it does seem necessary to use a
> javascript comment on the CDATA because even though the output is set
> to strict XHTML, the browser I tried (firefox) doesn't seem to
> understand CDATA in the script element.

If you serve the file with an xml mime type then the CDATA section isn't
needed and if it is there it will be parsed correctly, if you generate
XHTML but serve it as html then you are generating XML but parsing it
with an html parser which leads to parse errors, but the solution is
just don't do that, surely.

>  Hence the complicated workaround of putting a javascript comment in
> front of the CDATA.  I  wished browsers would just understand CDATA
> when the doctype is xhtml 

they undertand XML syntax if you tell them it is an XML file, which means
using an XML mime type (not just using an XML doctype, which doesn't
affect whether an xml parser is used, just whether the html renderer
uses standard or quirks mode

David

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