> > Saxon does indeed pass the contents of the CDATA section to the
> > application
> > "as-is".
>
>
> but it does not leave it "as-is", it escapes the "<" and ">".

If you have "<" in a CDATA section, then what the application sees is a "<"
character. On serialization to XML, this will appear as "&lt;", to ensure
that any application processing the XML again sees it as a "<" character. In
other words, the processing is all designed to ensure that the "<" remains a
less-than symbol and is never misinterpreted as markup.

Mike Kay


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