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At 02:32 PM 6/30/98 -0400, Tom Otvos wrote: >Why can an element's mixed content only be declared as PCDATA, not CDATA? SGML compatibility, sigh. Because CDATA content is broken as designed in SGML; for example, you can't declare element <X> to be of type CDATA and then do: <X>xxx<Z>..</Z>xx</X> Because the rules say that a CDATA element is terminated not, as you might expect, by its end tag, but by the first occurrence of ETAGO, a.k.a. "</". Anyhow, the more I think about it, any of these schemes that depend on a magic end-delimiter, e.g. "</anything>" or "]]>" are just amateurish and broken. We've known for years how to do this; either escape delimiters or put in a byte count. The idea of a built-in signal for a base64 encoding is starting to look better and better to me. -Tim 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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