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How does this work? (CDATA) test9991014 05-06-2008
Posted by Gus Richter on May 6, 2008, 8:07 pm
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 Stefan Ram wrote:
>> In XHTML, Script and Style element contents must be wrapped within a
>> CDATA marked section to avoid expansion of entities < and & as start of
>
> These characters can also be encoded by other
> well-known means without »CDATA«.

XHTML _will_ expand the entities.
Javascript does _not_ want them expanded.
The CDATA marked sections will _avoid_ expansion of the entities in the
XHTML document _within the CDATA marked sections_.

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Gus

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on May 6, 2008, 10:54 pm
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 Gus Richter wrote:

> XHTML _will_ expand the entities.
> Javascript does _not_ want them expanded.
> The CDATA marked sections will _avoid_ expansion of the entities in the
> XHTML document _within the CDATA marked sections_.
>

One good reason why those how do not understand the ramifications of
using XHTML should stick to HTML.

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Jonathan
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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on May 7, 2008, 2:08 am
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Scripsit test9991014@yahoo.com:

> While visiting the apple.com page, I noticed an unusual
> form behavior that seems pretty nice, but looking at the
> source (below) it is unclear how it works. Is there a tutorial
> that explains it? Thanks.

You'll find plenty of JavaScript tutorials, mostly poor, on the net.
JavaScript is not HTML. Followups trimmed.

> <script type="text/javascript">
> // <![CDATA[

If _this_ puzzles you, as "(CDATA)" on the Subject line suggests, then
you have a problem with HTML as well. You can simply read the HTML
specs, specifically
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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