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Subject: Re: [xsl] CDATA required for javascript????
From: Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 15:27:21 +0000
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It doesn't make any difference unless or until you have some javascript
code which includes reserved XML characters - namely "<" and "&". These
must be escaped, either individually as "<" and "&" or as a block
by making the whole script a CDATA section. This is probably the more
readable and less error-prone method.
Francis.
yan bai wrote:
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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