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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Andreas Bergmaier wrote:

> Andrew Poulos schrieb:
>> Shouldn't [that] be on two lines, thus:
>> // ]]>
>> </script>
>> ?
>>
>> Doesn't the leading "//" comment out the entire line?
> 
> Yes, but that doesn't matter the HTML Parser. The (X)HTML(soup)-Parser
> just looks for the end of the CDATA-section (if it knows about CDATA -
> else it looks for the end of the <script>-tag), and then might send its
> content to the script engine.

That CDATA declaration is for real X(HT)ML parsers only.  An HTML parser 
would ignore it since the content model of the HTML SCRIPT element is CDATA 
already (hence the single-line comments for the script engine); it would 
look for `</' instead (which is why you should escape ETAGO delimiters – </ 
– regardless in XHTML `script' elements).  A tagsoup parser would not care 
at all, it would probably look for `</script>' only (which is also why you 
get used to escaping unwanted ETAGOs there).
	

PointedEars
-- 
Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
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 -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> (2004)