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RE: escaping from CDATA

Subject: RE: escaping from CDATA
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:37:29 +0100
cdata means
> I have some valid xml embedded in a CDATA section:
>
>   <![CDATA[<element attr="100"><a>100</a><b>200</b></element>]]>
>
> I don't control the source XML so I just have to accept this.
> My question is how I can access the XML fragment inside the
> CDATA section. THankx

It isn't an XML fragment, it's text. That's what CDATA means: treat this as
text even though it looks like markup. If you want to treat the text as XML,
you'll have to extract it from the CDATA and put it through an XML parser.

Mike Kay


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