SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1

[Lauren Wood]

Bill la Forge wrote:
> 
> From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn at eps.inso.com>
> >CDATA sections *are* different from normal text, even if only
> >because the author used them.
> 
> Again, is anyone aware of why CDATA is preserved by the DOM?
> What was the reasoning behind this decision? 

Gavin summed it up quite well - the author used a CDATA Section and
may have attached some semantic meaning to it (I know that several
people disagree that CDATA sections can have semantic meaning;
others think they can) so the DOM doesn't throw away that
distinction, just in case.

Lauren

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