Re: Auto-inserting <![CDATA[ ... ]]>

"D. D. Brierton" <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:46:18 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.psgml.user
Organization	DZR Web Development
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 23:02, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 15:55, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> > When working in XHTML, although I try and keep all my CSS and Javascript
> > in external files I occasionally have to include some stuff in the
> > document itself which, because it contains characters like ">", needs to
> > go in CDATA tags like so:
> 
> The ">" character (TAGC) never needs to go in a CDATA Marked 
> Section, as it's just character data unless there is a prior
> "<". The only two characters that need CDATA Marked Sections 
> are "<" and "&" because they introduce markup.

Ooh. I didn't know that. Thanks!

> > <style type="text/css">
> > /*<![CDATA[*/
> > 
> > /*]]>*/
> > </style>
> 
> I'm not quite clear what you're trying to do here. Can you give
> a full example?

Okay. I'm assuming you mean a whole document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xml:lang="en-GB">
  <head>
    <title>
      CDATA in script Example
    </title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
          content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=us-ascii" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
    /*<![CDATA[*/
	if (i < foo && j < bar) {
          baz;
        }
    /*]]>*/
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      Hello World!
    </p>
  </body>
</html>


> > Could someone recommend some handy way of including the commented CDATA
> > stuff with the minimum of typing? Is that what Markup -> Custom Markup
> > is for?
> 
> I've never investigated Custom Markup. Why not just record the
> relevant keystrokes and save them in your .emacs bound to an
> unused key (eg F12)?

Because I don't now how to do that! Also, I'd really like something I
didn't have to memorise, but instead was available from a menu.

Best, Darren

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