Thymeleaf and inline scripts SAXParseException

Question

I got a page which uses thymeleaf template, and I\'m getting the following error on page load when using inline scripts:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException

Answer 1

You need to add CDATA tags for the script like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
    //<![CDATA[
     window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='assets/js/jquery-2.0.3.min.js'>"+"<"+"/script>");
    //]]>
</script>

The tags are telling thymeleaf's xml parser that the code between should not be interpreted as XML markup.

This is no longer necessary since Thymeleaf 3.0