• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>, Bob Kline <bkline@r...>,"xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:47:18 -0500

At 11:37 AM 3/30/01 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Before you suggest that the embedded document should not have been
> > wrapped in a CDATA section in the first place, let me say that:
>
>[points snipped]
>
>These points basically say that your embedded documents are text,
>not necessarily XML.  The safe way to encode text in an XML document
>is to use the mapping above.

So why do we have CDATA sections at all?

Oh, never mind.


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