CDATA section

A CDATA section or character data section is a section in an XML document which is marked for the parser to interpret as character data and not markup. A CDATA section starts with the following sequence: <![CDATA[ and ends with the first occurrence of the sequence: ]]> All characters enclosed between these two sequences are interpreted as characters, not markup or entity references. For example, in a line like this: <sender>John Smith</sender> the opening and closing "sender" tags are interpreted as markup. If, however, they are written like this: <![CDATA[<sender>John Smith</sender>]]> they will have exactly the same status as "John Smith"—text. Similarly, if ð appears in an XML document normally, it will be parsed as a reference for the Unicode character U+00F0 (small letter eth), but if the same appears in a CDATA section, it will be parsed as ampersand, hash mark, 240, semicolon. CDATA sections are useful for writing XML code as data. For example, if one wishes to typeset a book with Extensible Stylesheet Language explaining the use of an XML application, the XML markup to appear in the book itself will be written in the source file in a CDATA section. However, a CDATA section cannot contain the string "]]>" and therefore it is not possible for a CDATA section to contain nested CDATA sections. XML

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