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I would tend to go with the definition Tim Bray gave in the Annotated XML Spec from XML.com (located at http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html), which Mr. Laurent's definition agrees with: <quote> #PCDATA Means What? An observant reader wrote in to say that while the grammar makes clear that the keyword #PCDATA is used to signal mixed content, the spec says nothing about where that magic word comes from. The # is there because it can't be used in a Name, so #PCDATA could never be the type of a child element. The string PCDATA itself stands for "Parsed Character Data". It is another inheritance from SGML; in this usage, "parsed" means that the XML processor will read this text looking for markup signaled by < and & characters. </quote> Hope this helps. David Hunter david.hunter@m... MediaServ Information Architects http://www.MediaServ.com -----Original Message----- From: John Martin [mailto:John.Martin@n...] Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 3:07 PM To: xml-dev@i... Subject: PCDATA I have heard three different definitions of PCDATA so far. 1) The book called XML: A Primer by Simon St. Laurent defines it as follows: "parsed character data (#PCDATA)" - Parsed character data is text that will be examined by the parser for entities and markup. Parsed character data should not contain any &, <, or > characters; these need to be represented by the & < and > entities, respectively. 2) Microstar's Near & Far Designer defines it in its help screen as follows: "Processable Character Data (PCDATA)" - Indicates content that can be analyzed and processed. Mark-up entities will be recognized within the text. 3) A colleague of mine swears he saw it defined as "printable character data," but can't remember where he saw it. What's up with this? :) Thanks! John 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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...) 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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