Re: Reasons for retaining CDATA section boundaries

Richard Tobin:

>The argument that it may be impossible to output the text in a CDATA
>section in some encodings may be irrelevant to the users in question,
>since their editors and other tools may well only work with a
>particular encoding anyway.  Certainly many users would find it
>unacceptable if running XInclude or XSLT on their documents changed
>the encoding.

"would find it unacceptable"? XSLT does not preserve the encoding. Many
users don't like the fact; but those who find it unacceptable are, by
definition, not users...

Mike Kay

Received on Wednesday, 21 February 2001 04:12:55 UTC