I appreciate the clarification. Thank you very much! Nick
On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 11:10 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Working as designed, I'm afraid. > > In attribute data types, CDATA just means "character data" as opposed to > ID, IDREF, and so on. (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-attribute-types) > If you don't want the & in an attribute value to be interpreted as > introducing an entity reference, you must replace it with & in the XML > markup. > > There is no way to obtain the effect of a CDATA Section (<![[CDATA[]]>) in > an attribute; these may appear only as part of parsed text content of > elements (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-content) > > > Yes, it is unfortunate that the term CDATA is used to refer to both. > You're not the first to have been confused by this. I believe it's a > historical hold-over relating to XML's origins as a simplified subset of > SGML. > > > > ______________________________________ > "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, > A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." > -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish ( > http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html) >
