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Andrew Bunner scripsit: > (Interesting aside, IE will > display the right thing if you close a stand-along tag with />, but > Netscape will not) Both IE and Netscape will cope if you add a space before the "/>". This is legal XML. > <stating-the-obvious>Java Script engines are not easy things to > write.</stating-the-obvious> I think it's unlikely that developers are > going to redefine the Java Script language to interpret < as < ... my > opinion (hope) is that the standard should accomodate this. The problem arrived when Netscape decided to treat SCRIPT elements specially. This behavior then got standardized by giving SCRIPT a CDATA content model, which is Evil. The Right Thing would have been for Netscape to wrap SCRIPT content in a CDATA section. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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