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In this case "my software" is the Xerces DOM parser, and yes, I am saying that this software treats <![CDATA[<a/>]]> differently from <a/>. yes the parser might flag all sorts of stuff like line numbers in the source, comments etc, as well as cdata sections but why does the application you layer over that care about cdata? 1. The DOM gives you a different node type for the former than it gives you for the latter. But they both have the same string content. If you give it <![CDATA[<a>]]> or <a> then in both cases the DOM will pass you a string of length three "<a>" in one case a CDATA node in the other a text, but that only matters if you are some kind of editor and want to write the file back in a way similar to the source markup. 2. If you hand the value of the node you get back for the former to an XML parser you get a successfully parsed document; if you hand <a/> to the parser it fails. The text node will have the string <a> if you are seeing <a> then you have walked over the string replacing < by > But you don't want to linearise the string as XML you don't want > and you don't want <![CDATA you just want to take the string as XML markup as it stands, and the string is the same whether or not it was originally marked with CDATA. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp
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