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Bill la Forge wrote: > > From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...> > >CDATA sections *are* different from normal text, even if only > >because the author used them. > > Again, is anyone aware of why CDATA is preserved by the DOM? > What was the reasoning behind this decision? Gavin summed it up quite well - the author used a CDATA Section and may have attached some semantic meaning to it (I know that several people disagree that CDATA sections can have semantic meaning; others think they can) so the DOM doesn't throw away that distinction, just in case. Lauren 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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