> In particular, do parsers keep CDATA sections distinct from
> character data?
CDATA sections are part of the document's physical representation
rather than of its logical structure, so they would likely be reported
only by a specialised parser designed for authoring tools or
repositories. For other purposes, it doesn't matter; the following
two are exactly equivalent:
<example><![CDATA[
<sample>text</sample>
]]></example>
<example>
<sample>text</sample>
</example>
Switching between the two should produce exactly the same rendered
output from a formatting engine, exactly the same entries in a
database, etc. etc. SAX would report both as
start element: example
characters: "<sample>text</sample>"
end element: example
(some might break the second event into several smaller ones).
All the best,
David
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