Martin Duerst wrote: > Hello Elliotte, > > Just a personal comment for the moment: > > I think the caution against CDATA sections is motivated by the fact > that you cannot use numeric character references in CDATA sections. > This means that unless you use an Unicode encoding for the document, > there are limitations on the set of characters you can use. I'd seriously considering adding a suggestion that everyone just use UTF-8 for XML to this document. It makes so many things so much simpler. > There was a time when some people claimed that CDATA sections were > more than syntactic sugar, i.e. something like one more, somewhat > special, element. In such a kind of use, the i18n concerns were most > obvious. The fact that CDATA sections don't appear in the > Infoset and are flattened by XSLT has fortunately let this view > die out as far as I'm aware of. > Would that it were so. This view has mostly died out within the W3C specs and among the XML-cognoscenti but I encounter it constantly out in the field. Many, many developers still attempt to use CDATA sections as some sort of funky element. :-( -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosimReceived on Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:25:20 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:05:33 GMT