Re: [xml-dev] What characters can go into a CDATA section and acomment?

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

Yes, people keep rediscovering old things. I remember job control languages where you wrote

compile_cobol
----
COBOL CODE goes here
++++

I find the choice of delimiters for CDATA very ugly, but that's part of the point: they are chosen as character sequences that are unlikely to be wanted for any other purpose.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 24 Mar 2022, at 12:45, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> wrote:
> 
> CDATA sections are another thing that modern programming languages are finally adding, like annotations, in part under the influence of markup and templating languages.
> 
> For example, Scala or Java 15 text blocks
>   """
>     I am any old text } { even delimiters 
>     But not the leading and trailing newline
>  """
> 
> This makes it much easier to have large chunks of markup in computer code, so it probably eats at one of XSLT's selling points. 
> 
> Rick
> 
>