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Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset



At 11:37 AM 3/30/01 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Before you suggest that the embedded document should not have been
> > wrapped in a CDATA section in the first place, let me say that:
>
>[points snipped]
>
>These points basically say that your embedded documents are text,
>not necessarily XML.  The safe way to encode text in an XML document
>is to use the mapping above.

So why do we have CDATA sections at all?

Oh, never mind.


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