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Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset

  • From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@m...>
  • To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:17:27 -0500

nested cdata
They're great for embedded HTML of the messy, non-xhtml variety.  I.e. real HTML documents that non-XML experts will typically write.  I have used the same CDATA technique to pull in content from outside suppliers within a more structured message containing meta-data.   Since it isn't XML data, nested CDATA sections are a non-issue to me.  Escaping and unescaping all those pointy brackets is a pain in the neck and runs the risk of fouling up the HTML.

take it easy,
Charles Reitzel

At 12:17 PM 3/30/01 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>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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take it easy,
Charles Reitzel



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