CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)
John Cowan
cowan at locke.ccil.org
Tue Nov 3 16:18:02 GMT 1998
Michael Kay wrote:
> Neither really works well, because "]]>" can legitimately occur in a Java
> program. For example, it is quite likely to occur in a Java program that
> generates XML.
If "]]>" is needed as a string literal or part of one, it can easily be
replaced by "]]\76" or "]]\u003E".
If it appears in program text, then "]] >" will be a sufficient
replacement.
Similar workarounds are used to avoid ETAGOs ("</") in the SCRIPT and
STYLE elements of HTML 4.0; they are necessarily language-specific.
For example, Javascript uses "<\/".
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
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