- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:17:33 -0400
- To: DOM List <www-dom@w3.org>
keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: > Converting ]]> contained in CDATA into "]]]]><![CDATA[>" -- that's my > current reading (which could be mistaken, obviously). Annoying, but not > unreasonable; by quoting the string rather than escaping the individual > characters, CDATA _is_ more fragile and has to be handled accordingly. Yes. My point was that the DOM objects CData and Text can contain any characters, since they are essentially just dressed-up wstrings: adding markup has to be done when writing XML files. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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