copying contained CDATA sections from WYSIWYG view is broken about bluegriffon HOT 5 OPEN

Is that a html5 document? In html5, CDATA sections can only be used inside foreign elements (mathml, svg, etc).

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In html5, CDATA sections can only be used inside foreign elements (mathml, svg, etc).

Ah, you're right. Good to know:

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#cdata-sections

But look, I don't want to use CDATA. I want to use regular old XML. I'm only using CDATA to get around this horrible, blocker bug #10.

from bluegriffon.

The bug occurs only in XHTML documents ; use html and you'll be fine.

from bluegriffon.

I could use Markdown and be fine, too!!

I want to use XHTML5. Why does everybody have a freakin' problem with that?

from bluegriffon.

The bug occurs only in XHTML documents ; use html and you'll be fine.

This is not true! You're trying to make excuses for a fundamental broken component of BlueGriffon, and your workaround won't work.

Forget XHTML. Let's say I have the following HTML source code, exactly as HTML5 requests for source code. I enter it into the source code view of BG:

<pre><code>public class FooBar {

  /** Does Foo.
   * &lt;p&gt;Does Bar too!&lt;/p&gt;
   */
  public void doFoo() {
    do {
      <mark>foo();</mark>
   } while(bar());
}</code></pre>

Note two things:

1. I have used character references < and > because I want <p> to appear in the output and not be recognized as an actual HTML <p> tag.
2. I have not used character references for <mark> because I want the HTML renderer to recognize this element as a child element of <code>---that is, to actually highlight the section in question.

In BG I then switch to WYSIWYG view. Then I switch back to source code view. BlueGriffon changes my code to this:

<pre><code>public class FooBar {

  /** Does Foo.
   * <p>Does Bar too!</p>
   */
  public void doFoo() {
    do {
      <mark>foo();</mark>
   } while(bar());
}</code></pre>

This has completely different semantics! Now in the rendered page I have a paragraph in the middle of my source code, which is not what I wanted nor what I entered.

This is 100% broken. BlueGriffon corrupts my content. This is a blocker issue. Why isn't it being fixed for BG 1.8 in Bug #10?

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