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Chris Smith writes: > In particular, do parsers keep CDATA sections distinct from > character data? CDATA sections are part of the document's physical representation rather than of its logical structure, so they would likely be reported only by a specialised parser designed for authoring tools or repositories. For other purposes, it doesn't matter; the following two are exactly equivalent: <example><![CDATA[ <sample>text</sample> ]]></example> <example> <sample>text</sample> </example> Switching between the two should produce exactly the same rendered output from a formatting engine, exactly the same entries in a database, etc. etc. SAX would report both as start element: example characters: "<sample>text</sample>" end element: example (some might break the second event into several smaller ones). All the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ 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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