2004-03-03T12:13:38Z 2004-03-03T12:13:38Z 2004-03-03T12:13:38Z

<p>Dumb question&hellip; does anyone know if the following <span class="caps">XML</span> construct is technically legal?</p> <blockquote>&lt;a title="&lt;![CDATA[lame &lt;i&gt;test&lt;/i&gt;]]&gt;" href="http://www.debian.org/"&gt;blah&lt;/a&gt;</blockquote> <p>PyExpat barfs on it, as does Mozilla&rsquo;s XML parser, and I suspect they&rsquo;re right to do so, but I can&rsquo;t find anything in the <span class="caps">XML</span> specification that says, definitively, whether or not <span class="caps">CDATA</span> declarations are allowed in attributes. (If this is incorrect <span class="caps">XML</span>, <a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a> 2.661 generates invalid <span class="caps">RDF</span>/XML and my trackback discovery code <em>isn&rsquo;t</em> busted.)</p> http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/1340 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=1340