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When is a CDATA section necessary within a script tag?

Are CDATA tags ever necessary in script tags and if so when? In other words, when and where is this: <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ ...code... //]]> </script> preferable to this: <script type="text/javascript"> ...code... </script> ...

Actionscript3 E4X XML and CSS: Do I really have to use CDATA?

When working with CSS inside of XML such as <span class="IwuvAS3"></span> when parsed in flash, if I don't use CDATA like the following: <![CDATA[<span class="IwuvAS3"></span>]]> then the parsed data drops down a line for every "<" character it sees. When parsing the data into a single-line text field, nothing was shown because it...

Is there a way to escape a CDATA end token in xml?

I was wondering if there is any way to escape a CDATA end token ( ]]> ) within a CDATA section in an xml document. Or, more generally, if there is some escape sequence for using within a CDATA (but if it exists, I guess it'd probably only make sense to escape begin or end tokens, anyway). Basically, can you have a begin or end token em...

Which is better for encoding HTML for RSS?

I recently introduced HTML into some RSS feeds that I publish (which up to now only had plain text, no markup), and I was wondering which method is better: use character encoding (such as htmlspecialchars) or just encapsulate everything in CDATA? It seems to me that CDATA might be easier, but I'm unclear as to whether there might be any...

Force use of CDATA in XML-schema

I am creating an xml schema, and I want to make sure that the values in all the elements are CDATA elements. Is there a way to force this using XML-schema? ...

.Net XmlSerializer: deserialize CDATA being inner text

Hello, I have a problem with CDATA deserialization using standard .Net XmlSerializer. Update: I get XML from external system and I can't influence it's format so I can't make CData be enclosed in a separate Element of Attribute. Serialization gives this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> <MyClass xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/20...

Flash AS2: How to POST CDATA to a server?

I have an XML object that I want to send to my player via HTTP POST. This is all good when using XML.sendAndLoad. The problem is that when the XML object I generate contains CDATA, the CDATA is stripped out before the POST occurs. so if I have: var xml:XML = new XML("<root><tag><![CDATA[hello]]></tag></root>") when I do a sendAndL...

ASP.NET Response.Redirect shows CDATA to browser

I recently moved a web application to a new server and every response.redirect ends up just showing the CDATA to the browser. The form did post back, the changes were made, but the browser doesn't end up loading the new page, just shows the CDATA. Any ideas? ...

Storing base64 data in XML?

How I can store base64 strings in XML? Do you use CDATA to store base64 strings in XML? Would it help as it allows use of < > within the strings? Is base64 configurable where you tell it not to use certain chars if they conflict with XML? ...

Use CDATA to store raw binary streams?

Instead of the overhead with saving binary as Base64, I was wondering if you could directly store double-byte binary streams into XML files, using CDATA, or commenting it out, or something? ...

Flash - Change the CDATA end character?

Since I want to store raw binary streams in CDATA Sections of XML files, the 3 character CDEnd code might mistakenly match my binary. Any way to change the CDEnd code for Flash? I'd like it 10 char just for reliability. ...

Why are null char disallowed even in CDATA sections?

XML, Why are null char disallowed even in CDATA sections? It seems to terminate the file right there. Any solution? Base64? ...

How do i write the literal "]]>" inside a CDATA section with it ending the section

Pretty simple question, I'm writing an XML document and i'm not sure how to write "]]>" without it being seen as the end of the section. ...

encode ]]> in a cdata

Exact duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/538163/how-do-i-write-the-literal-inside-a-cdata-section-with-it-ending-the-section if I'm building some xml and using , how do I encode data that may include a "]]>" substring? would it be "]]>"? I ask because I always thought cdata content was literal content. ...

Efficient way to encode CDATA elements

Ok, I'm reading data from a stream using a StreamReader. The data inside the stream is not xml, it could be anything. Based on the input StreamReader I'm writing to an output stream using an XmlTextWriter. Basically, when all is said and done, the output stream contains data from the input stream wrapped in a element contained in a p...

ASP generated javascript

Hi, I'm wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I've got an ASP.NET web application. And there's autogenerated portion of JavaScript in every page that handles postback. Sometimes that javascript is surrounded by <[CDATA[ ... ]]> , while on the other machine it may be enclosed in simple HTML comment like <!-- .....

Flash/XML breaklines & hidden characters

I got this problem, when edit my xml everything on a next line renders two breaklines <![CDATA[Line one Line two Line three ]]> Renders in flash as Line One Line Two Line Three Now I researched this before and it had something to do with hidden breakline characters, Im using Flexbuilder and or Aptana to edit the xml, but how do ...

Are XHTML entity encodings valid in XML documents as long as they're contained inside CDATA tags?

Is this a valid (well-formed) XML document? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <outer> <inner>&copy;</inner> </outer> At issue is whether the HTML/XHTML "" entity encoding is valid in an XML document where there is no DTD or schema to define it. An alternative way of expressing the above would be to say this: <?xml version="1...

Rendering HTML Tags from within CDATA tag in XSL

I have a CDATA tag within my XML code which contains some hyperlinks. <smartText><![CDATA[ Among individual stocks, the top percentage gainers in the S.&P. 500 are <a href ='http://investing.domain.com/research/stocks/snapshot /snapshot.asp?ric=LNC'>Lincoln National Corp</a> and <a href ='http://investing.domain.com/research/stocks/s...

Sql Server 2005 Xml data type has CDATA removed on INSERT

I have the following table in my database: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[XmlData]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [xmldata] [xml] NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_XmlData] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [id] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMA...