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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- David> David G. Durand <URL:mailto:david@d...> > In article <9710271217.ZM22092@i...>, David > wrote: David> It is. CDATA is not legal in XML DTDs at all (mostly because David> it's rather broken -- any occurence of the "</" delimiters David> closes the element). David> Instead, you must use CDATA marked sections: >> <![ CDATA [ <contents> to </be> quoted ]]> David> If you need the ]]> delimiter in the CDATA area, you must David> escape it via the use of entities. I thought you couldn't use entities within CDATA marked sections (since '&' and '&#' are no longer recognised as markup). IIRC, the only way to write ']]>' in a CDATA section is to re-write it as two sections, with literal text in between: > <![ CDATA [ <contents> to </be> quoted, a literal]]> ]]><![ CDATA > [, and more <contents> to </be> quoted.]]> (although I might choose to write the #PCDATA using entities if it helps my editor's parenthesis-matching ;-) If you want to automate this on stuff you're including into XML source, try this sed incantation: sed -e 's/]]>/]]>&<![ CDATA [/g' -e '1s/^/<![ CDATA [/' -e '$s/$/]]>/' # I didn't use i (insert) or a (append), since they introduce # line-breaks :-( (Using entities may or may not be a better move, depending on one's assessment of the source material. It's an inescapable fact that all included material needs a stage of processing before insertion. In fact, the more I think about it, the more dangerous I think CDATA marked sections are, because they enable one to get away with it *almost every time*, thus increasing the likelihood of a quick-fix solution appearing to work despite containing an (obscure) bug.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQB1AwUBNFTbJedsuUurvcRtAQFu7AL/UScZDEG/GLyff/TTP5H1gKCw3GB+FEZi XfiSSi6NaktwRu8rgduuo4Lq7otWQDEHgUryGNug6oz19aq9XPMTF0r96MmpgUyL 5PaoW9zzXSRGrJ89+YFnygGdXJRCHjLG =+UfT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 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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