Name
CDATA
Synopsis
<![CDATA[ ... ]]>
Description
You can define special marked sections of character data, or CDATA,
which the XML processor will not attempt to interpret as markup.
Anything that is included inside a CDATA marked section is
treated as plain text. CDATA marked sections begin with the
characters <![CDATA[ and end with the characters
]]>. For example:
<![CDATA[ I\(asm now discussing the <element> tag of documents 5 & 6: "Sales" and "Profit and Loss". Luckily, the XML processor won\(ast apply rules of formatting to these sentences! ]]>
Note that you may not use entity references inside a CDATA marked section, as they will not be expanded.
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