HTML-friendly serialization of an XHTML page

[Ghislain]

Hi,

At the moment, it is not possible for Zorba/Sausalito to produce JavaScript HTML/XHTML compatibility constructs like:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

// JavaScript code here

//]]>
</script>

because it is only possible to tell the serializer to serialize the entire content of an element as a CDATA section (with cdata-section-elements), and not only part of it.

It would be great to have another serialization parameter, like html-friendly-scripts (true or false), specific to XQuery application servers, which automatically puts //<![CDATA[ and //]]> around the content of any script tag with type="text/javascript" and serializes the text node as CDATA. In the same way, it could also automatically put (: <![CDATA[ :) and (: ]]> :) around the content of any script tag with type="text/xquery" and serialize the text node as CDATA.

If one wants it more generic, instead of being true or false, it could be a set of tuples like ("text/javascript", "//<![CDATA[", "//]]>") or ("text/xquery", "(: <![CDATA[ :)", "(: ]]> :)") with the constraint that the second string contains "<![CDATA[" and the third string contains "]]>".

Thanks!