PyCharm complaining about unescaped XML character within <script> tag Follow

Created July 06, 2016 07:12

My .html file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/html" lang="en">
<head>
  ...
  <script type="application/javascript">
    x = 1 < 2;  //Error here
    
  ...

PyCharm marks the less than operator as an unescaped XML character.

Assuming that this is my fault, how can I convince PxCharm to NOT show this error?

1 comment

Elena Pogorelova

Created July 07, 2016 15:56

You are using <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> doctype.
This doctype prohibits usage of the unescaped symbols 'less-than' and 'ampersand' according to the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8
So, PyCharm works as expected. You should change < into < to make document valid.

Or, if you don't care about document validity, you can suppress the inspection: hit Alt+Enter, Right, then choose the desired option ('Disable inspection', 'Suppress for statement', etc.) from the popup

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