Re: What characters can go into a CDATA section and a comment? (I found inconsistencies)

"Liam R. E. Quin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.devel
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On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 08:28 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
> CDATA sections are also used by many web developers unsure of exactly
> /what/ a user is going to input, and exactly /when/ in subsequent 
> non-XML processes the markup is going to be stripped, so they use it
> as 
> a safety-net of last resort, which often goes wrong; 

Yup, this is why CDATA injection attacks are a thing.

Little Bobby Tables now works as a back end developer...


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