just a bug (was: xml.dom.minidom: how to preserve CRLF's inside CDATA?)

Neil Cerutti horpner at yahoo.com
Fri May 25 09:05:42 EDT 2007


On 2007-05-25, Richard Brodie <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> "Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote in message 
> news:pan.2007.05.25.09.45.22.373437 at gmx.net...
>
>> How did you verified that it is well formed?
>
> It appears to have a more fundamental problem, which is
> that it isn't correctly encoded (presumably because the
> CDATA is truncated in mid-character). I'm surprised
> Mozilla lets it slip by. 

Web browsers are in the very business of reasonably rendering
ill-formed mark-up. It's one of the things that makes
implementing a browser take forever. ;)

-- 
Neil Cerutti
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