CDATA in script validates, but fails at runtime

[moshe]

Here's a code snippet:

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<script>
	<![CDATA[
	// instantiate these
	for (  var c = 0 ;  c < requestTypes.length ; c++ ) {
		
		s = requestTypes[c] + "=\"" + requestTypes[c] + "\""
		eval ( s ) 
	}
	]]>
</script>

When I validate the file with this snippet, I find no problems (unless I forget to put in the CDATA).

When I attept to run this code, I get an error of "expected an element name". It's attempting to interpret the

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<

as the start of an element name, or it's expecting a

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<

regardless of the CDATA declaration.

[support]

Hi,

We are not able to replicate this IVR issue. Could you provide us with a short, but complete VoiceXML script that demonstrates this IVR behavior?

Regards,
Plum Support

[moshe]

I created this script to test this out, but now I can't get it to fail. The actual JS is inside this root document. The root document is essentially the exact same one that failed before.

I now begin to suspect that it was a caching issue, and that a version without CDATA was indefinitely cached and I was hitting the same old copy each time. Now that the cache has cleared the CDATA version is being picked up and all is well.

If it's likely to have been a caching issue, let's put all this aside for another time.