0> In article <199809091828.OAA02266@unready.megginson.com>, David
0> wrote:
David> The problem is that the HTML 4.0 DTD defines the <SCRIPT>
David> element as follows:
David>
David> <!ELEMENT SCRIPT - - CDATA>
David>
David> This is perfectly legal SGML, and HTML 4.0 is based on SGML. It
David> would actually be *wrong* to use < and & in a <SCRIPT>
David> element in HTML -- the browsers, probably by accident, have it
David> right (at least this far).
I think it should be pointed out that HTML was *changed* in order to
accommodate the browsers' behaviour. Earlier drafts (HTML 3.0, IIRC)
had <!ELEMENT SCRIPT - - (#PCDATA)>, but the browsers didn't deal
with it correctly.
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