Re: Scripting and XML

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:31:59 -0700

At 12:37 AM 19/10/97 UT, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>but it would be a heck of a lot easier to be able to
>declare <!ELEMENT SCRIPT CDATA>

Well, it would if the SGML CDATA element idea actually worked. But it
doesn't, because the contents of a CDATA element are terminated by
any <, or is it </, I forget at the moment, but anyhow, you can't,
in practical terms, use CDATA elements for anything useful. If you
could, they'd be in XML.

For now, stick with <![CDATA[ ... ]]> - anybody who can't implement
this properly is a bozo. -T.