XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Arjan Huijzer <huijzer AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:00:44 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com> 
wrote:
> 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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