Re: 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 &lt;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 &lt;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?


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi