Re: [xml-dev] What characters can go into a CDATA section and a comment? (I found inconsistencies)
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:58 PM Peter Flynn <[email protected]> wrote:
THE most important use case IMNSHO is for documenting markup. I like to
be able to write:
<programlisting language="XML"><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
<foo>
<title>Some <title></title>
</foo>
]]></programlisting>
How is above mentioned code snippet, more useful than writing within comments like below,
<programlisting language="XML">
<!--<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
<foo>
<title>Some <title></title>
</foo>-->
</programlisting>
<!--<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
<foo>
<title>Some <title></title>
</foo>-->
</programlisting>
It seems to me that, XML comments are meant to be ignored (they're sort of noise). Is that the reason, or only reason to use CDATA section instead?
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi