[x3d-public] question re scripts and XML entities

[Don Brutzman]

agreed completely.

here are some similar thoughts on that point... improvements and additions welcome.

	X3D Scene Authoring Hints: Scripts
	http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dSceneAuthoringHints.html#Scripts

On 12/5/2016 12:30 AM, Yves Piguet wrote:
> X3D XML must be valid XML. So your question probably means "is it better to use cdata in X3D XML scripts or to escape special XML characters with entities?"
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> My feeling is that cdata is preferred for the sake of legibility. But if you generate xml programmatically, you should still detect and escape the sequence of three characters ]]> which marks the end of cdata, replacing it with something like (unquoted) "]]>]<![CDATA[]>".
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> I think general-purpose xml producers prefer entities. Also cdata blocks (and xml empty elements and case-sensitive tags and attribute names) aren't supported in html5, hence the difficulty to produce X3D XML embeddable in both xhtml and html.
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> Yves
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>> On 5 Dec 2016, at 08:37, <yottzumm at gmail.com> <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is it more correct to have < and friends in X3D XML scripts, or < and friends in X3D XML scripts?
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>> Thanks,
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>> John

all the best, Don
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