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XML Pocket Reference
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XML Pocket Reference

by Robert Eckstein
October 1999
Beginner to intermediate
110 pages
2h 28m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

CDATA

Synopsis

<![CDATA[ ... ]]>

Description

You can define special marked sections of character data, or CDATA, which the XML processor will not attempt to interpret as markup. Anything that is included inside a CDATA marked section is treated as plain text. CDATA marked sections begin with the characters <![CDATA[ and end with the characters ]]>. For example:

<![CDATA[
  I\(asm now discussing the <element> tag of documents
  5 & 6: "Sales" and "Profit and Loss". Luckily, 
  the XML processor won\(ast apply rules of formatting 
  to these sentences!
]]>

Note that you may not use entity references inside a CDATA marked section, as they will not be expanded.

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