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• Subject: Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e better off as a crossing guard
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:50:17 +0200
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Michael Kay wrote:
> I always suspect that software that blindly wraps everything in CDATA
> sections regardless of its content is probably not bothering to check
> whether the text contains "]]>".
> 
> But as other current threads show, there are a lot of folks out there,
> including some who work for absurdly profitable software companies, who
> reckon that if it works 99.99% of the time, that's good enough.

Yeah, until they get JavaScript code like
   if (value[keymap[key]]>0) ...
(taken from a HTML de-obfuscator)

J.Pietschmann

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