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  • From: Mukul Gandhi <mukulg@s...>
  • To: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:48:13 +0530

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:58 PM Peter Flynn <peter@s...> wrote:
THE most important use case IMNSHO is for documenting markup. I like to
be able to write:

<programlisting language="XML"><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
<foo>
   <title>Some &lt;title></title>
</foo>
]]></programlisting>

How is above mentioned code snippet, more useful than writing within comments like below,

<programlisting language="XML">
<!--<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
<foo>
   <title>Some &lt;title></title>
</foo>-->
</programlisting>

It seems to me that, XML comments are meant to be ignored (they're sort of noise). Is that the reason, or only reason to use CDATA section instead?
 

--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi


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