Tidy Suggestions for Embedded Javascript

[chadmichael]

Hello,When I run Tidy on my document, some CDATA structure is placed around my function. However, its commented out. What would be the purpose of this CDATA structure? Is is required for XHTML compliance? I guess its not fully required or Tidy would not have made the stuff commented out.

  <script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[		   function newWindow() {foodWindow = window.open("images/snowyGate.jpg",		   "foodWin", "width=250,height=188")}  //]]>  </script>

Thanks,Chad

[scott100]

It just tells the xml parser to ignore the javascript between it.http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

[chadmichael]

It just tells the xml parser to ignore the javascript between it.http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

Is this for performance, i.e. speeding up the parsing? Or is it only necessary when some kind of illegal or problematic character sequence exists within the text?