PCDATA vs CDATA

[Chris Maden]

[Richard Tobin]
> For example, if c were declared CDATA and the parser didn't have the
> DTD, it would report a syntax error for
> 
>   <c>></c>

He means, of course

<c><</c>

A better example is:

<c><d/></c>

In SGML, if <c> has CDATA declared content, then the content of <c> is
the string "<d/>".  In XML+CDATA, without a DTD, this is
indistinguishable from <c> containing an empty element <d>.

-Chris
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