Re: DOCTYPE related question

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Date	2012-02-10 17:07 +0100
Subject	Re: DOCTYPE related question
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Jeff North wrote:

> I hope you've wrapped your script within the CDATA element as this is
> a requirement for XHTML.

No, it is not.  It is a recommendation (and I do not mean W3C 
Recommandation, although that applies as well).
 
>>| function newNode(x,y,width,height) {
>>|   var node = document.createElement('div');
>>|   node.style.position='absolute';
>>|   node.style.left = xOffset+x;
> node.style.left = xOffset+x + "px";
>>|   node.style.top = yOffset+y;
> node.style.top = yOffset+y +"px";
>>|   node.style.width = width;
> node.style.width = width + "px";
>>|   node.style.height = height;
> node.style.height = height + "px";
>>|   return node;
>>| }

This script does not contain any `<' or `&'.  Therefore, it does not need to 
be declared CDATA.
 

PointedEars
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  Re: DOCTYPE related question "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-02-10 14:05 +0200
  Re: DOCTYPE related question Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2012-02-10 13:07 +0100
    Re: DOCTYPE related question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-10 16:41 +0100
  Re: DOCTYPE related question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 13:35 +0100
  Re: DOCTYPE related question Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-02-11 01:34 +1100
    Re: DOCTYPE related question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-10 16:42 +0100
    Re: DOCTYPE related question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 17:07 +0100

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