XML by Example

The following example uses a CDATA section to insert an XML example

into an XML document:

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

<example>

<[CDATA[

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

<entry>

<name>John Doe</name>

<email href=”mailto:[e-mail]”/>

</entry>]]>

</example>

NOTE

CDATA stands for character data. In the next chapters you will see that text in an ele-

ment is called PCDATA, parsed character data.

The difference between CDATA and PCDATA is that PCDATA cannot contain markup char-

acters.

Frequently Asked Questions on XML

This completes our study of the XML syntax. The only aspect of the XML

recommendation we haven’t studied yet is the DTD. The DTD is discussed

in Chapter ...