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• Subject: RE: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e better off as a crossing guard
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:45:28 -0500
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dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>Interesting, so in this application can you guarantee that all the
>HTML that is being placed in CDATA sections is always going to be
>valid XHTML (ignoring the lack of DocType decl and namespace
>declaration)?

Yep.  

It'd be cool for the database to offer an option to require
external-entityish well-formedness (it's not much different from other
flavors of data validation for database fields), but for right now I can
cover that base myself.



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