- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:08:21 -0400
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
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 :) -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1118162137/liamquinxml
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