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RE: PCDATA

• From: Jarle Stabell <jarle.stabell@d...>
• To: "xml-dev@i..." <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:37:16 +0200

John Martin wrote:
> I have heard three different definitions of PCDATA so far.
>
> "parsed character data (#PCDATA)" - Parsed character data is text that
> will be examined by the parser for entities and markup.  Parsed
> character data should not contain any &, <, or > characters; these need
> to be represented by the &amp; &lt; and &gt; entities, respectively.


I believe PCDATA can contain ">". However, it cannot contain "]]>", except 
when this ends CDATA sections.

Cheers,
Jarle


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