<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Jim Driscoll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jim.Driscoll@sun.com">Jim.Driscoll@sun.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 12/11/09 3:45 PM, Dan Allen wrote:<br>
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Oh, I forgot one use case. Max was saying that they need to use CDATA in<br>
their templates, but the CDATA should not be sent to the browser. So<br>
there is the same problem with CDATA as with the XML declaration.<br>
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I commented directly on the bug, but here's my thoughts.<br>
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The CDATA case is actually considerably harder than the XML declaration.<br>
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Typically, you either want to serve the XML declaration application wide, or you don't. Generally, because of IE, you don't. I would argue that we should make that the default case. If IE ever gets it's act together, or folks start using XML v2.0, then we can revisit the decision - that should last us for at least 5 years, anyway.<br>
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With CDATA, there will be times when you want to serve CDATA blocks to the browser (most notably, to wrap scripts).<br>
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Apparently, there will also be times when you don't (though the example of a custom script tag is not compelling to me - we handle that in Mojarra's implementation without incident, though it's a painful block of code to read).<br>
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There will therefore be times when you both want to serve CDATA blocks, and when you do not, possibly in the same page.<br></blockquote><div><br>So just have a cdata tag.<br><br><![CDATA[foo]]> -- sent w/o CDATA (e.g., foo)<br>
<h:cdata><![CDATA[foo]]></h:cdata> -- send wrapped as CDATA<br><h:cdata>foo</h:cdata> -- sent wrapped as CDATA<br><br>This was solved in XSLT (if my memory is not failing me), so we are no different.<br>
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