CData section

[Xiaofan Zhou <Xi...@businessobjects.com>]

Hi, All,

 

I have a question regarding CData Section, say I have an element
<cust_info> in XML defined as following: 

<cust_info>

    <![CDATA[ Customer<!1> ]]>

</cust_info>

When I use the SAX parser in Xerces-c, I got the character data for the
element "Customer<!1>", is this the expected behavior? I thought the
data should be the whole thing: <![CDATA[ Customer<!1> ]]>, that is,
come out the parser without parsing it.

Thanks for clarifying in advance.

Frank

Re: CData section

[da...@us.ibm.com]

> I have a question regarding CData Section, say I have an element 
<cust_info>
> in XML defined as following: 
> 
> <cust_info>
>    <![CDATA[ Customer<!1> ]]>
> </cust_info>
> 
> When I use the SAX parser in Xerces-c, I got the character data for the 
element "Customer<!1>",
> is this the expected behavior?

Yes.

> I thought the data should be the whole thing: <![CDATA[ Customer<!1> 
]]>, that is,
> come out the parser without parsing it.

No, the characters that delimit a CDATA section are markup, and markup is 
never reported by a SAX parser.  It's only the character _within_ the 
CDATA section that are not interpreted as markup.  However, a SAX2 parser, 
with a LexicalHandler installed will report the boundaries of any CDATA 
sections.

Dave

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