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Re: [xml-dev] CDATA

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To: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] CDATA
From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:52:07 -0800
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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David Megginson wrote:
> 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.
 >
> Or just scrap the whole thing.

I can't agree with that. For instance, SCRIPT in XHTML would become 
quite ugly and arguably unusable if you had to use ampersand encoding.

  Paul Prescod

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