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Re: CDATA vs Escaping XML Characters

From: "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@-----------------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 6/2/2006 9:54:00 AM

sudhakarnraju@g... schrieb:
> Hi,
> There's a need to generate xml documents in our project and in one of
> the node, it can contain some snippets of code which can have <, > and
> other xml symbols
> e.g
> <Code>
> If i > 100 && j < 200
> ...
> End If
> </Code>
> 
> Question is: Should I XMLEncode the node text  ( &lt;, &gt; etc) OR
> should I put them in CDATA attrib.
> 
> Is there a difference between usage of the above 2 options. I beleive
> they are part of same XML standard and are interoperable. Please confirm

Confirmed.

Hint: unless human readability of the XML is a major concern, I'd avoid 
CDATA altogether. It's just not needed and adds potential complexity 
(escaping of "]]>"...).


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