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Re: ![CDATA[

From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: NULL
Date: 5/2/2007 7:31:00 PM

In article <4638e3b2$1@kcnews01>,
Joseph Kesselman  <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote:

>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).

However, it also makes the data more human-readable, which seems very
desirable when, for example, including a computer program in an XML
document.

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.


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