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• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@h...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:14:53 -0400

rsanford asked -

> what's the difference between declaring an element having
> CDATA content and using a CDATA section?
>
> can i declare that my element will contain a CDATA section
> in a schema? if so, how?
>
> also, not quite related, is it valid for a CDATA section,
> not the same one, to contain binary data? if so, are there
> restrictions the binary data must conform to (no null values
> for instance)?
>
You can declare that an element's content be ***PCDATA*** (i.e., parsed
character data).  An attribute's value can be CDATA, not an element.

A CDATA ***section*** is not declared, you just put in the content of an
element and the parser will understand what you mean.

You still can't use characters that are illegal in XML, though.  Base64
encoding is commonly used for this.

Tom Passin

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