What is wrong with my HTML document?
<html>
<body>
<p><![CDATA[I can't see this text :(]]></p>
</body>
</html>
Why don't I see the text inside CDATA?
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A:
Explicit CDATA sections are, in practice, unsupported in text/html documents. They are marked as a feature authors should avoid because they have limited support.
Your browser is probably treating it as an unknown element.
David Dorward
2010-10-07 10:17:10
@David Do you know any alternative to `CDATA`? How can I use a potentially ill-formed XML/HTML inside well-formed XHTML document?
Vincenzo
2010-10-07 10:23:10
Alternative to CDATA? Replace characters with special meaning with entities. Dealing with ill-formed data? Clean it up before inserting it (maybe with an HTML 5 parser) or reject it if it isn't well-formed at the input stage.
David Dorward
2010-10-07 10:24:57
@David I solved the problem by changing the MIME type of the web page from `text/html` to `application/xml`. Now everything works fine.
Vincenzo
2010-10-07 10:32:17
@Vincenzo IE doesn't support `application/xml`.
RoToRa
2010-10-07 10:47:16