XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> >As long as there is no DTD, then a CDATA seems unecessary.
> >
> >But if there is a DTD and it does not allow mixed content for <content>,
> >then a CDATA section would effectively sidestep validation issues...
> 
> Again, you are asking to do exactly what I maintain is a horrible idea. 
> Content in CDATA is *not* markup , even if it looks like it is.  

I agree.  The proper use of CDATA (and the use I was making of it) was to
write character data that happens to contain lots of < characters in such
a way that it remains readable.

IOW, the end result was to display the snippets of HTML *as* HTML, not
render them.

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