Re: What characters can go into a CDATA section and a comment? (I found inconsistencies)
Michael Kay <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php