re: [xml-dev] CDATA

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Paul Prescod writes:

 > Without reducing the culpability of these lazy programmers, I'll
 > say that CDATA is pretty broken and should be fixed if there is
 > ever an XML 2.0. It is CDATA itself that works 99.9% of the
 > time. XML should have a readability-preserving escape mechanism
 > that works 100% of the time. The most logical thing is to let the
 > application choose its own delimiter.

Or just scrap the whole thing.


All the best,


David

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