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Re: ![CDATA[

From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam-nospam@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 5/2/2007 3:17:00 PM

ranch99ranch99@g... wrote:
> I always see ![CDATA[ in XML page, what does this mean?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#sec-cdata-sect

What it really means is that whoever wrote the XML file was sloppy. 
CDATA Sections are an ugly cluge intended to make manually 
copy-and-pasting non-XML data into an XML file a little easier. The 
proper solution is to use XML-aware tools, which will escape individual 
characters when necessarily (and only when necessary).

If any tool actually requires the use of CDATA Sections rather than 
escaping on a character-by-character basis, it's badly broken and should 
be replaced.





-- 
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden


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