CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)

[Richard Tobin]

> What he said.  The DOM made a serious mistake here in my opinion: it's
> stranded in no-person's-land between raw and cooked, without being
> either.  It's not cooked, because it gives you EntityReference and
> CDATA nodes.  It's not raw, because it DOESN'T give you character
> entity references.

Note that the XML 1.0 recommendation requires that character and
internal entities be expanded before passing the data to the
application.

Of course, this just illustrates that a conforming processor isn't
always what you want.

-- Richard

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