XML Pocket Reference, Second Edition

Name

CDATA

Synopsis

<![CDATA[ ... ]]>

You can define special sections of character data, or CDATA, which the XML processor does not attempt to interpret as markup. Anything included inside a CDATA section is treated as plain text. CDATA sections begin with the characters <![CDATA[ and end with the characters ]]>. For example:

<![CDATA[
   I'm now discussing the <element> tag of documents
   5 & 6: "Sales" and "Profit and Loss". Luckily,
   the XML processor won't apply rules of formatting
   to these sentences!
]]>

Note that entity references inside a CDATA section will not be expanded.