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• Subject: Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e better off as a crossing guard
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:19:45 -0500
• In-reply-to: <001401c2f7c9$f2555140$9e539696@citkwaclaww2k>

karl@w... (Karl Waclawek) writes:
>Are you saying that in Expat the characterDataHandler reports the
>strings "><![CDATA[" and "]]>" for a CDATA section? 

No, I'm saying that it doesn't provide any way for me to say "please
don't process the contents of this CDATA section as text; please process
it as if the CDATA section wasn't there."

>That should not
>happen unless you are using an old version of Expat. But even then I
>believe that setting a CDATASectionHandler should suppress that.

I'm not interested in suppressing the event, but rather on suppressing
its effect on the parser.

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