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As another data point -- Sun's validating parser accepts Henry's original example, no problems. (And it does so very quickly, but you knew that! ;-) A pragmatic answer "why": it uses the data model implied by SAX, which treats characters "quoted" by "<![CDATA[" ... "]]>" like any other characters (but without using '&' and '<' as markup delimiters). I think that's the right model. It's clear from 2.7 that the text inside a CDATA section is character data, not markup; the example is clear, if the text could be misunderstood. Since 2.4 makes clear (sentence 1!) that the _only_ two sorts of stuff in XML are "character data" and "markup", so there's no way I could justify treating space inside a CDATA section differently from other characters (in terms of data model). Hence it's not possible to distinguish whitespace characters that are the content of a CDATA section from the same text that's outside of a CDATA section. - Dave p.s. Yes, if there's confusion, the spec probably needs to be clarified. Not a crime in any 1.0 spec. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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