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![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >microsoft.public.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Quick question on the presence of CDATA [Thread Next] Re: Quick question on the presence of CDATATo: NULL Date: 11/1/2006 6:31:00 PM
Use CDATA when encoded characters such as HTML will be used to populate the
XML element with data. The CDATA section escapes character data which would
otherwise cause the XML to fail validation.
<Symbol><![CDATA[<span style="vertical-align:
super">©</span>]]></Symbol>
<%= Clinton Gallagher
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"Dilip" <rdilipk@l...> wrote in message
news:1161796745.674589.318820@m......
>
> I have been out of the XML world for a while and have sort of forgotten
> the exact difference between:
>
> <Symbol><![CDATA[IBM]]></Symbol>
>
> and just:
>
> <Symbol>IBM</Symbol>
>
> Can anyone tell me why one is preferred over the other?
>
> thanks!
>
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