7. Are CDATA sections allowed?

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> 7.  Are CDATA sections allowed?  The consensus so far seems to be no.
> They help spec writers, but they provide a loophole against escaping
> content that doesn't actually work.  Nobody has asked for them.

No. No. No. Good god no. I opposed them in XML too.

CDATA injection attacks are not worth the tiny tiny benefit.

Spec writers can use XInclude, except that we've outlawed it :)



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