AW: AW: CData-Attributes

2000-02-06 Thread Armin Pfarr
Dear Mr. Bray, > I believe that XML and SGML have the same handling for CDATA attributes. You are rigth. I was mixing up the SGML-standard and HTML 4. Even though HTML is just an SGML-application, the Browsers are much more liberate in treating markup-errors. When running my docs against nsgmls, h

Re: AW: CData-Attributes

2000-02-05 Thread Tim Bray
At 02:30 PM 2/5/00 +0100, Armin Pfarr wrote: >It is astonishing for somebody who has some knowledge of SGML (like me) that >the CDATA construct in XML differs from the one in SGML at all AND STILL >USES THE SAME NAME. I believe that XML and SGML have the same handling for CDATA attributes. >The

AW: CData-Attributes

2000-02-05 Thread Armin Pfarr
Hello Mike, thank to your comments, I got the point. I already had the annotated spec at hand. I looked up 3.3.1 "Attribute Types" which states StringType::='CDATA'. There is no description there and also no annotation. Since this IS something new in XML, I'd at least mention it here. It is asto