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Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:17:37 -0500

Simon St.Laurent wrote:


> So why do we have CDATA sections at all?
> 
> Oh, never mind.

I'll answer anyway.

They add to human readability in special cases of embedded text,
where the text contains frequent occurrences of "<" or "&" or both,
and is known not to contain "]]>".

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