Re: CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 11:18:34 -0500


Michael Kay wrote:

> Neither really works well, because "]]>" can legitimately occur in a Java
> program. For example, it is quite likely to occur in a Java program that
> generates XML.

If "]]>" is needed as a string literal or part of one, it can easily be
replaced by "]]\76" or "]]\u003E".

If it appears in program text, then "]] >" will be a sufficient
replacement.

Similar workarounds are used to avoid ETAGOs ("</") in the SCRIPT and
STYLE elements of HTML 4.0; they are necessarily language-specific.
For example, Javascript uses "<\/".

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