The Cdata is a data which you may want to pass to an xml parser and still not interpreted as an xml. Say for eg :- You have an xml which has encapsulates question/answer object . Such open fields can have any data which does not strictly fall under basic data type …

Sep 23, 2014 · For these situations a more radical way has been introduced to escape text: whatever is between <![CDATA[and ]]&gt; is to be interpreted verbatim. Only the sequence ]]> marks the end of the verbatim text. The use of CDATA is invisible to the reader of XML. <this><![CDATA[a test]]></this> represents the same element as <this>a test</this>.

The CDATA keyword in an attribute declaration has a different meaning than the CDATA section in an XML document. In a CDATA section all characters are legal (including <,>,&,' and " characters), except the ]]> end tag. #PCDATA is not appropriate for the type of an attribute. It is used for the type of "leaf" text.

Aug 2, 2011 · CDATA sections are useful for embedding xml documents inside another xml document, however when including character data (i.e. text) in a document it shouldn't change the meaning of the data if it is enclosed in a CDATA section over simply being encoded as text data (possibly with certain characters escaped).

Aug 13, 2009 · How to read CDATA in XML file with PowerShell using a variable for the XML path? 1.

Aug 20, 2015 · O CDATA serve para indicar que o texto dentro da área dele é um texto comum e não pode ser interpretado como parte da marcação do XML. Isto é útil quando uma parte do texto de um determinado elemento pode ser confundido com partes da marcação do XML, o que não é o caso do exemplo mostrado. É uma forma de escapar os caracteres.

Dec 6, 2016 · If not, just let the XML parser do what it does and don't worry about CDATA vs escaped text. If people will be reading this XML, then perhaps CDATA can be the better choice. If you're going to have an XML element whose value is …

May 23, 2017 · No you can't use CDATA alone to inject binary data in an XML file. In XML1.0 (because XML 1.1 is more permissive, but not about control chars), the following restrictions apply to CDATA characters:

Oct 12, 2012 · Reading CDATA XML in Java. 8. Nested CDATA - correctly. 0. Get tag inside CDATA XML. 1.

Jun 22, 2015 · That is: y = BeautifulSoup(open(x), 'xml') CDATA sections don't create elements. You can't search for them in the DOM, because they don't exist in the DOM; they're just syntactic sugar. Just look at the text directly under the document, don't …