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Re: DOM Level -3 + normalizeDocument API

• To: "Pavithran" <pavithran.a@a...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: DOM Level -3 + normalizeDocument API
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:45:13 -0400
• In-reply-to: <003701c2611f$838f9220$8401a8c0@pavithrana>
• References: <003701c2611f$838f9220$8401a8c0@pavithrana>

At 9:02 AM +0530 9/21/02, Pavithran wrote:

According to specs

  "split-cdata-sections"
Split CDATA sections containing the CDATA section termination marker ']]>'.

But CDATASection cant have "]]>" string as its contents according to XML 1.0,


Absolutely right. A CDATA section cannot have the "]]>" string as its 
contents according to XML 1.0. However, DOM does not not model XML 
1.0. What it actually models is 90% XML, 10% meat by-product. This is 
one of the by-product parts. :-)

With DOM you can create a CDATASection object whose contents include 
the string "]]>". This cannot be written as XML, but a DOM 
CDATASection object is not XML. XML is text, not an object. What this 
property is describing is how you handle this non-XML piece in DOM 
when you convert the DOM object to genuine XML.
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