htmllib: CR in CDATA

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Jun 22 07:15:28 EDT 1999


Mark Nottingham wrote:
> It appears that htmllib doesn't ignore returns in CDATA fields, as HTML 4.0
> says it should.

well, htmllib doesn't claim to be HTML 4.0 compliant...

> OK, I'm starting to have a really nice conversation with myself now ;-)
> 
> htmllib DOESN'T change the newline to a single space - it leaves it in.
> 
> CDATA is a sequence of characters from the document character set and may
> include character entities. User agents should interpret attribute values as
> follows:
>           Replace character entities with characters,
>           Ignore line feeds,
>           Replace each carriage return or tab with a single space.
>      User agents may ignore leading and trailing white space in CDATA
> attribute values (e.g., "   myval   " may be interpreted as "myval").
> Authors should not declare attribute values with leading or trailing white
> space.

...and it doesn't claim to be a "user agent", either...

</F>





More information about the Python-list mailing list