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What is a CDATA section in XML?

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Last Update: February 28, 2009 Asked by: norman

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April 02, 2007 23:38:05

Vijay

RE: What is a CDATA section in XML?

If we want to exclude some elements in XML documnet from parsing then we need to put those elemnets in CDATA.

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April 22, 2007 14:45:24

nits123

Member Since: April 2007 Contribution: 4

RE: What is a CDATA section in XML?

So can we call Cdata as used for commenting in XML ?

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August 23, 2007 19:18:23

RE: What is a CDATA section in XML?

CDATA in XML is the character data is is not parsed by the XML Processor. If there is a section in the document that you do not want the XML processor to parse then it can be enclosed in
<![CDATA[ ......................]]>

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February 26, 2009 05:49:49

rajadurai24

Member Since: February 2009 Contribution: 7

RE: What is a CDATA section in XML?

CDATA is used to store plain text or string values. It is commonly used with implied attributes which allows user to define their own values. For example <! ATTLIST Student LastName (CDATA) #IMPLIED>

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