Re: 7. Are CDATA sections allowed?

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> 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 :)
>

No CDATA Sections.  As for XInclude, we'll find another way (a Micro way).


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