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

[david at megginson.com]

Chris Lovett writes:

 > It doesn't make any sense to think of the contents of a CDATA section in
 > terms of "replacement-text" because then you'd have to wonder about
 > validating <![CDATA[<b/><c/>]]> which was NOT the point of CDATA sections.
 > The point of CDATA was to treat <b/><c/> as UNPARSED text.

Precisely -- it's a matter of escaping.  That doesn't really solve the 
first problem, though, since validation can (must?) take place after
delimiter recognition.


All the best,


David

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