xml-dev - Re: how do i...

[Wayne Steele <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>]

rjsjr:

You cannot declare an Element as having CDATA content (although you can in 
Full SGML).

If you want the content of an element to look like XML, but have the 
software just pass it through as text, you need to use Entity References ( a 
la < ) or use a CDATA Section.

<element><![CDATA[
   I am text.
   <not_a_start_tag>.
   &not_an_entity_reference;.
   <?not a PI?>
   <data>some more text</data>
   <!-- no comments either -->
   I am still just raw text.
]]></element>

-Wayne Steele

>From: rsanford <rsanford@nolimitsystems.com>
>To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: how do i...
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:09:48 -0500
>
>include XML data as text within an element. what i want is
>given the following simplified xml:
>
>    <element>
>       <xml_data>
>          other text
>       </xml_data>
>    </element>
>
>when i request the text data for <element> have the entire
>content below that be returned rather than have <xml_data>
>be considered as an element.
>
>do i simply declare <element> to contain CDATA or do i
>have to manually escape the content of <element> so that
>all the < are translated to &lt; (and so forth and so on)
>or do i need to do both?
>
>rjsjr
>
>

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