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Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset
- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:17:37 -0500
Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> So why do we have CDATA sections at all?
>
> Oh, never mind.
I'll answer anyway.
They add to human readability in special cases of embedded text,
where the text contains frequent occurrences of "<" or "&" or both,
and is known not to contain "]]>".
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