Re: CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)
James Tauber (jtauber@jtauber.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:29:30 +0800
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
>So if CDATA sections are equivalent to character data, they are
>unequivocally forbidden. Only whitespace is permitted. To suppose
>otherwise is to suppose that CDATA sections with whitespace are
>allowable anywhere that whitespace is allowable, which is absurd:
>"<FOO<![CDATA[ ]]>bar=baz>" anyone?
This doesn't follow because the productions explicitly say where CDATA
sections can occur for the document to be well-formed.
James
--
James Tauber / jtauber@jtauber.com / www.jtauber.com
Associate Researcher, Electronic Commerce Network
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
Maintainer of : www.xmlinfo.com, www.xmlsoftware.com and www.schema.net