XML - NG

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Wed Jan 13 18:44:29 GMT 1999


Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> >You can't.  Nor <'s either.  But CDATA in "CDATA attribute" does not
> >mean the same thing as in "CDATA element content", which does not
> >mean the same as in "CDATA section".
> 
> Which suggests that at some point a colossal renaming scheme is in order.

Aaaaak!  One Great Renaming was enough!

But at least in XML the term "CDATA" has only 2 meanings, rather
than the 5 meanings of full SGML....
 
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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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