Anne van Kesteren wrote:
Quoting Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I think conformance checkers should not allow '</' in elements whose
content model in HTML 4 was CDATA.
Agreed. That is how HTML 4 validators currently work.
And also how no browser works.
That's irrelevant in this case. The question is about whether or not it
is valid for authors to use "</" within elements containing CDATA, which
it is not, regardless of how browsers should actually handle the error.
This point was raised before by the way:
<http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2005-January/002993.html>
For the purpose of error handling, it would be acceptable to define that
an erroneous "</" within does not close the element, but that doesn't
make its use by authors any more valid and should be picked up by any
decent conformance checker.
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
