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Re: What characters can go into a CDATA section and acomment?

• From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:58:13 +0000

On 24/03/2022 09:18, Mukul Gandhi wrote:

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:58 PM Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote:

THE most important use case IMNSHO is for documenting markup. I like to
be able to write:

<programlisting language="XML"><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
<foo>
   <title>Some &lt;title></title>
</foo>
]]></programlisting>

How is above mentioned code snippet, more useful than writing within comments like below,

<programlisting language="XML">
<!--<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
<foo>
   <title>Some &lt;title></title>
</foo>-->
</programlisting>

It seems to me that, XML comments are meant to be ignored (they're sort of noise). Is that the reason, or only reason to use CDATA section instead?

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: What characters can go into a CDATA section and acomment? (I found inconsistencies)
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>

• References:
  • What characters can go into a CDATA section and a comment? (I foundinconsistencies)
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: What characters can go into a CDATA section and acomment? (I found inconsistencies)
    • From: Mukul Gandhi <mukulg@softwarebytes.org>
  • Re: What characters can go into a CDATA section and acomment? (I found inconsistencies)
    • From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
  • Re: What characters can go into a CDATA section and acomment? (I found inconsistencies)
    • From: Mukul Gandhi <mukulg@softwarebytes.org>