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Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Lance Eason <leason AT betweenmarkets.com>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:50:50 -0400

Lance Eason wrote:

Elliotte Harold wrote:

Because they are persistently misused and misunderstood.

Out of genuine curiosity, what constitutes a 'misuse' of a CDATA
section? I tend to use them as syntactic sugar to say please don't
obfuscate this particular piece of text with a bunch of '<', '>'
and '&' encodings.

1. The use of CDATA to embed malformed markup in documents which then needs to be parsed (the RSS mistake)

2. The treatment of CDATA as somehow different from non-CDATA encodings of the same information, usually by treating it as some sort of funny pseudo-element (seen in many DOM based apps)

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[XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?, Lance Eason, 08/22/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?, Elliotte Harold, 08/22/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?, Tatu Saloranta, 08/22/2006
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?, Elliotte Harold, 08/22/2006
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?, Lance Eason, 08/22/2006
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?, Elliotte Harold, 08/22/2006
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Why won't XOM let you create a CDATA section?, Elliotte Harold, 08/28/2006