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Jarle Stabell wrote: > > Explicit CData Marker > > Instead of having to confront a DTD in order to find out whether an > element(type) is CData or not, I feel it would be better if this info were > explicit in the document instance. > F.i. by adding a special CData symbol at the end of the start-tag if one > wants its content treated as CData. > If the symbol is present, the content is "plain/unstructured" text (CData), > if it's not, the content is tagged/structured text (Mixed/PCData). > > Example: (Here the symbol '*' is used to indicate CData) > > <MyText>This is not CData, <MyText*>but this is! Here I can write &, <, > <element> or whatever I want without being concerned about clashing with > other "magic" symbols until the end-tag.</MyText></MyText> Don't CDATA sections provide this functionality already? Your example would go something like: <MyText>This is not CData, <![CDATA[but this is! Here I can write &, <, <element> or whatever I want without being concerned about clashing with other "magic" symbols until the end-tag.]]></MyText> The only limitation is that you can't have the string ']]>' within the CDATA section. -- Vivek Agrawala, Ph.D. Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. email: vivek@s... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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