• From: "Bill la Forge" <b.laforge@j...>
• To: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@e...>, "'XML Developers' List'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:51:25 -0500

From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
>CDATA sections *are* different from normal text, even if only 
>because the author used them.

Again, is anyone aware of why CDATA is preserved by the DOM?
What was the reasoning behind this decision? Other things, like
whitespace within an element tag or even attribute order, are not preserved.
Why then was CDATA? 

Bill


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