XHTML: <![CDATA[..script..]]>

Ralf Schneider · Aug 9, 2003

Hi there,
can anybody help me?

It won't work! Why?
My declaration:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[

]]>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<noscript>
<p>Noscript</p>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>

It works without "<![CDATA[..script..]]>"!
Thanks for helping!
Ralf

Sean Jorden · Aug 9, 2003

@news.t-online.com:

It works without "<![CDATA[..script..]]>"!
Thanks for helping!
Ralf

<![CDATA[ ]]> render the contents as character data
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#dt-chardata)
not markup, so the parser won't process anything in within as tags.

Ralf Schneider · Aug 9, 2003

Thousand Thanks!

Sean Jorden said:
@news.t-online.com:

It works without "<![CDATA[..script..]]>"!
Thanks for helping!
Ralf

Click to expand...

<![CDATA[ ]]> render the contents as character data
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#dt-chardata)
not markup, so the parser won't process anything in within as tags.

Toby A Inkster · Aug 10, 2003

Ralf said:
It won't work! Why?

Current browsers aren't proper SGML interpreters, so don't understand it.

m · Aug 10, 2003

Toby said:
Ralf Schneider wrote:

Current browsers aren't proper SGML interpreters, so don't understand it.

I think this is right. It's really no
trouble to push javascript to a sperate
file, anyway, so the questioner need not
fret over it.

HTMLTidy uses a hack to get CDATA to
work with CSS by commenting out the
CDATA declaration with CSS comment tags:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
h4{background:#a54b0d;color:white;width:250px}
/*]]>*/
</style>
</head>

But it's all so ugly.
Just push the stuff out to
sperate linked files so multiple pages
can use them. The difference in
download times on any decent server
will only be a fraction of a second.

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XHTML: <![CDATA[..script..]]>

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