Re: nxml-mode parser and multi major modes

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> > Ok, here comes the diff.
>
> It seems that the point of this diff is to make the validation code of 
> nxml-mode ignore certain chunks of invalid XML within the buffer, is 
> that right?

Yes.

> If so, then XML already has a mechanism for telling parsers not to parse 
> a block of text: <![CDATA[ ... ]]>, though you may need to customize the 
> face that is used to display the contents to avoid conflict with the 
> other mode that you intend to use on its contents.

It is not supposed to be used in that context.

Think PHP, Jsp, Smarty, EmbPerl or any other xhtml template language. 
The files are simply not valid XML, but parts of them can still be 
parsed by the nxml-mode parser. This allows both error checking and 
XHTML completion.