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Re: [xml-dev] How important are CDATA sections?

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To: Gustaf Liljegren <gustaf.liljegren@bredband.net>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] How important are CDATA sections?
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 23:20:16 -0700
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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Gustaf Liljegren wrote:

> What is the current opinion about CDATA sections? Keep or scrap?

I use them all the time to write 'ongoing'.  There are other ways I 
could accomplish this, but CDATA sections are less work, and all the 
tools support them, and I really don't see any chance of them vanishing. 
  Doesn't mean I like them, they're kinda ugly.  But so are lots of 
useful things.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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