RE: CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)
Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:07:16 GMT
> (SGML has a CDATA keyword you can use instead of content models: XML was
> felt not to need it because you could use <![CDATA[, however that perhaps
> shows the mind of the XML WG at that time, in that they were down-playing
> the need for schemas.)
Surely the unanswerable argument against CDATA elements in XML was
they prevent you from parsing a document without the DTD. Just like
optional start/end tags, and unmarked empty elements.
-- Richard