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Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset
- From: Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>
- To: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:00:57 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, John Aldridge wrote:
> At 10:54 30/03/2001 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> >Before you even think about suggesting how easy it would be to restore
> >the angle brackets in the embedded document, let me point out that the
> >< and > which are not delimiters for the element tags in the
> >embedded document cannot be "restored" to < and >, and I submit that it
> >is impossible in some cases to distinguish which those were. Therefore
> >information has been lost.
>
> Perhaps I'm being thick today, but I don't see the problem. Can you expand
> a little?
Sure. Try handing the following "document" to your favorite XML parser
and watch what happens.
<A/>
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