Re: [PATCH] tweaks to ox-html style

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

On 2021-02-13, Timothy wrote:

> Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> writes:
>
>> On 2021-02-12, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote:
>>
>>> I do not know why the CDATA lines exist.  I don’t see a reason to
>>> keep them (patch 0001), but that might be a lack of understanding on
>>> my part.
>>
>> OK, that is probably for XHTML, where < and & are only allowed
>> inside CDATA sections.
>>
>> Timothy, did you try to validate XHTML output?
>
> If you look at the commit message for 001, you can see the following:
>
>> remove CDATA strings, as they are now
>> considered obsolete --- see
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CDATASection#specifications
>
> Does that page clear things up for you?

No, sorry, I don’t get it.  I see:
“Re-added in issue #295 due to web breakage”

> I did a bit more googling and found
> https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-polyglot/html-polyglot.html#bib-HTML5
> which mentions CDATA:
>
>> The CDATA code is then seen as text by the HTML parser (and can thus
>> interfere with the scripting or styling language!), while the XML
>> parser sees the content as text without markup semantics.
>
> In other words, CDATA allows you to keep XML comparability,

Exactly.  In fact, the “&” in the magnet URI should be “&amp;” or
it might be placed into the CDATA section.

> but now breaks strict HTML comparability.

What do you mean?  If I use html5 as HTML_DOCTYPE, the validator at
https://validator.w3.org/nu/ does not complain.

Best wishes
Jens

smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature