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• Subject: re: CDATA
• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:12:37 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3E89EE1D.4010608@p...>
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Paul Prescod writes:

 > Without reducing the culpability of these lazy programmers, I'll
 > say that CDATA is pretty broken and should be fixed if there is
 > ever an XML 2.0. It is CDATA itself that works 99.9% of the
 > time. XML should have a readability-preserving escape mechanism
 > that works 100% of the time. The most logical thing is to let the
 > application choose its own delimiter.

Or just scrap the whole thing.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/

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