Yes, people keep rediscovering old things. I remember job control languages where you wrote
compile_cobol
----
COBOL CODE goes here
++++
I find the choice of delimiters for CDATA very ugly, but that's part of the point: they are chosen as character sequences that are unlikely to be wanted for any other purpose.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
> On 24 Mar 2022, at 12:45, Rick Jelliffe <> wrote:
>
> CDATA sections are another thing that modern programming languages are finally adding, like annotations, in part under the influence of markup and templating languages.
>
> For example, Scala or Java 15 text blocks
> """
> I am any old text } { even delimiters
> But not the leading and trailing newline
> """
>
> This makes it much easier to have large chunks of markup in computer code, so it probably eats at one of XSLT's selling points.
>
> Rick
>
>
