• From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@j...>
• To: "XML Dev" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:29:30 +0800

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
>So if CDATA sections are equivalent to character data, they are
>unequivocally forbidden.  Only whitespace is permitted.  To suppose
>otherwise is to suppose that CDATA sections with whitespace are
>allowable anywhere that whitespace is allowable, which is absurd:
>"<FOO<![CDATA[ ]]>bar=baz>" anyone?


This doesn't follow because the productions explicitly say where CDATA
sections can occur for the document to be well-formed.

James
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