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Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset

  • From: Bob Kline <bkline@r...>
  • To: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@i...>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:00:57 -0500 (EST)

Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, John Aldridge wrote:

> At 10:54 30/03/2001 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> >Before you even think about suggesting how easy it would be to restore
> >the angle brackets in the embedded document, let me point out that the
> >&lt; and &gt; which are not delimiters for the element tags in the
> >embedded document cannot be "restored" to < and >, and I submit that it
> >is impossible in some cases to distinguish which those were.  Therefore
> >information has been lost.
> 
> Perhaps I'm being thick today, but I don't see the problem.  Can you expand 
> a little?

Sure.  Try handing the following "document" to your favorite XML parser
and watch what happens.

&lt;A/&gt;

-- 
Bob Kline
mailto:bkline@r...
http://www.rksystems.com


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