> I understand CDATA sections; I'm just depressed and fairly cranky
> that people still consider them a worthwhile tool that deserves
> regular use. Yecch. To think at one time I thought hiding
> JavaScript inside comments to shield it from old browsers was ugly.
They're not quite the same -- CDATA sections simply shift the parsing
mode, so that the only delimiter recognised is "]]>" (or "]]"). That
said, they are purely lexical and somewhat unattractive, and exist
only as a convenience for people who write XML in regular text
editing tools.
Once there are XML editing tools in wide-spread use, they will
probably hide this, so naive authors will just type
if (x < y && a > b) {
...
}
and the editing software will write it to the XML file as
if (x < y && a > b) {
...
}
All the best,
David
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