Re: [xml-dev] Tradeoffs of XML encoding by enclosing all content in CDATA blocks

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Felix Sasaki <>
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"Karr, David" <>
Date
2008-09-30T02:55:54Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Tradeoffs of XML encoding by enclosing all content in CDATA blocks
Not main arguments, but maybe still of interest:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/#AuthCDATA

Felix

Karr, David さんは書きました:
>
> I pointed out to a client that they're seeing failures parsing XML 
> because some of the element content that they're producing contains 
> characters illegal in XML content, like "&" (unencoded). They 
> acknowledged that should be fixed, but they also said they could 
> instead enclose all content with CDATA blocks. That seems bizarre to 
> me, but I'm not sure I can immediately come up with all the cogent 
> arguments against that. Can someone summarize specifically why you 
> should NOT do that?
>