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Rick Jelliffe wrote: >... > So, in the case of SCRIPT in HTML, I think it should be an element > not a PI. There is no special processing that a PI invokes at the > point of its declaration in an HTML document. > >... Generally, I agree that a SCRIPT could (should) be an element. But some script languages or even statements require specific formatting. For example, a Javascript single-line comment must not wrap; some Python code depends on specific indenting; etc. I can imagine that a processor, finding a PI at that point, would preserve the special formatting where otherwise it would not. Of course, the processor could simply know to preserve formatting when it hits a <SCRIPT> element. If the processor is XSLT, SCRIPT elements with "<" and "&" characters can be output properly for HTML (according to the more recent drafts of XSLT), so here we don't need PIs or CDATA either. Tom Passin 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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