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David Megginson wrote: > > Gavin Thomas Nicol writes: > > > > >Do we really need to know about CDATA sections > > > > > > Debatable perhaps, but supported by the DOM. (Anyone know why?) > > > But I'd really like to see better SAX/DOM integration, so Yes! > > > > CDATA sections *are* different from normal text, even if only > > because the author used them. Note the interface inheritance in > > the DOM that tries to hide the distinction for those that need > > not see it. > > By the same argument, > > <p > x="1"> > > and > > <p x="1"> > > are different, because the author used them. I haven't heard anyone argue that the whitespace can have semantic meaning, whereas I have heard it about CDATA sections. (Note that I do not necessarily agree that CDATA sections can have semantic meaning, simply that some people think they do.) Lauren xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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