the only reason why u would do this is because the javascript contains <, >,
or & the reserved characters for xml.

it is good practice to do this, but not necc. and in fact if u want to
integrate xslt to generate javascript, well u wont be able to do this.

cheers, jim fuller


----- Original Message -----
From: "yan bai" <bytj@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:54 PM
Subject:  CDATA required for javascript????


> I noticed that several books put javascript in CDATA,
> but also found that javascript also worked without
> CDATA.
> <script language="javascript">
>     document.write(form.first_elem.value);
> </script>
>
> or
>
> <script language="javascript">
>     <xsl:comment>
>         <![CDATA[
>             document.write(form.first_elem.value);
>         ]]>
>     </xsl:comment>
> </script>
>
> Both of the above works fine.
>
> I wonder if it is just a matter of style, or it
> requires CDATA in some special cases.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yan
>
>
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