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• Subject: Re: Usage of Escape Character instead of CDATA
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 02:40:01 -0800
• References: <OFF448E8F3.7F2EBA0D-ON65256B53.00326036@r...>

ReemaD@r... wrote:
> 
>..
>     <testnode1/>

That is not a tag. It is a series of characters that resolves to a "<",
"t", "e", ..."/", ">". It is data, not markup. It means exactly the same
as <![CDATA[<testnode1>]]>.

If you want it treated as an element then you should type in real
less-than and greater-than signs. Otherwise it is data.

 Paul Prescod

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