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Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
> What is the current opinion about CDATA sections? Keep or scrap?
>
> I wasn't doing much of SGML, but I can imagine that CDATA was useful in the
> time documents were prepared largely by hand, in text editors with very
> limited SGML support. Moreover, SGML didn't have the predefined entities
> for < and &, so CDATA must have been the only standard alternative.
No, you could use numeric entities. Or define "<" and "&" in the DTD or
internal subset.
>...
> As XML evolves, I'd be happy to see CDATA disappear. XML doesn't need any
> syntax constructs only for the sake of convenience. That's what we have XML
> editors for.
May Goldfarb save us from those who want to protect us from the syntax
by making the syntax so unbearable that we need protection!
Paul Prescod
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