Re: [dom] Why remove CDataSection? (#142)

Not exactly. CDATA text is not encoded while plain text is. Whether it's an entirely distinct type or there's some meta-data describing the content, maintaining the distinction is important.

There are applications where CDATA in XML files are NOT the same as escaped string content. Round-tripping XML files in those cases would produce incorrect output.

I do agree that it's not a fully distinct type, but simply losing the information would be very bad for XML processing.

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