Is this legal?

G

G.

Earlier, I blamed Python for being unable to parse this, but just to be
sure, is this legal HTML (at least the part with " // </ht ml> " ?


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head><title>Choke on this</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// </ht ml> - this is a comment in JavaScript
-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
Hey there
</body>
</html>
 
M

Martin Honnen

G. said:
Earlier, I blamed Python for being unable to parse this, but just to be
sure, is this legal HTML (at least the part with " // </ht ml> " ?


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head><title>Choke on this</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// </ht ml> - this is a comment in JavaScript
-->
</script>
Click to expand...

According to SGML/HTML rules the first </ closes the opening <script>
tag so that </ht will close the opening <script>:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-cdata>
 
C

cwdjrxyz

Martin said:
According to SGML/HTML rules the first </ closes the opening <script>
tag so that </ht will close the opening <script>:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-cdata>
Click to expand...

Also http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#script may
be of some interest. Not observing the SGML requirement described here
is responsible for many complaints that the W3C and other validator
services receive that claim the validator is making an error, which in
fact it is not. It is just that in this case many browsers will display
the page properly despite the error.
 

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