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Re: CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 18:05:12 -0600

Lauren Wood wrote:
> 
> If the CDATA section
> is simply an escaping mechanism, then the data can be
> transformed before being passed to the DOM, in which case the
> DOM will never see a CDATA section. Should the CDATA section
> have some other significance, the parser can leave it as a CDATA
> section and pass it to the DOM, which will respect it.

Is there a standard way for the DOM client software to say whether it
wants access to CDATA sections or not?

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