Jens Lechtenboerger <lech...@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? 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, but now breaks strict HTML comparability. IMO the latter is much more important for an org-html export. -- Timothy
