iGoogle Gadget Checker throws error on for loop

Question

I'm trying to put a for loop in my google gadget definition, but iGoogle Gadget Checker throws an error on a simple for loop.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I be using a different gadget validator?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Module>
  <ModulePrefs title="Test Gadget">
  </ModulePrefs>
  <Content type="html">
    <script>
        for (var i=0; i<10; i++) {
          console.log(i);
        }
    </script>
  </Content>
</Module>

I figured this out...HTML needs to be surrounded by <![CDATA[ ... ]]>. My Javascript for loop had a '<' sign in the relational comparison that looked like an unclosed XML tag to the parser. — Mike Smith, Nov 16 '11 at 16:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 04:33

XML requires HTML character data to be defined with CDATA tags in order to not confuse the parser.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Module>
    <ModulePrefs title="Test Gadget"></ModulePrefs>
    <Content type="html"><![CDATA[
        <script>
            for (var i=0; i<10; i++) {
                console.log(i);
            }
        </script>
    ]]></Content>
</Module>

iGoogle Gadget Checker throws error on for loop

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