Re: [xml] CDATA parsing issue

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism maden org>]

Prashant R wrote:
> <icecream><![CDATA[Ben's&Jerry's >>"Mango"<<]]></icecream>
> 
> which after parsing is extracted as
> Ben's&Jerry's >>"Mango"<<
> 
> i would want it as
> Ben's&amp;Jerry's&gt;&gt;"Mango"&lt;&lt;

Why would you want that?  What you have is the actual content.

I think you’ll find that if you re-serialize that correctly in any
context that requires XML escaping, you’ll get it; this is far
preferable to corrupting the data on parsing.

~Chris
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