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On 06/02/2012 15:31, Jesper Tverskov wrote: > The only real difference I can think of is that the CDATA attribute > type ends up partly whitespace normalized, linefeeds becoming just > spaces. But this is more a question of being an attribute and an > element than of having two types. Well there's the rub, similarly < is parsed differently in the two cases; starting an element tag in one case and not the other. So the parsing is actually quite different, it only appears to be the same if you ignore the obvious differences... But the real reason for the silly names is that they were called that in SGML (which had more possibilities and variants so the names made more sense there) so the names were a given since XML being an SGML subset was a hard(ish) requirement. David -- ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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