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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: Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.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 14:50:02 -0400

Tatu Saloranta wrote:

While CDATA is a perfectly legal xml construct to use
(from xml specification perspective), as a parser
writer I wish it was never included in xml (from
sgml), mostly because it has a few problems.

It's definitely one of the nastier things a DPH has to deal with, probably second only to the internal DTD subset.

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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