RE: CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)

Chris Lovett (clovett@microsoft.com)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:39:15 -0800

I like Rick's idea of xml:content-mode="CDATA". This definitely
disambiguates this whitespace case for the validating parser.

So
<!DOCTYPE a [
<!ELEMENT a (b, c)>
<!ELEMENT b EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT c EMPTY>
]>
<a><![CDATA[ ]]><b/><c/></a>

would become:

<!DOCTYPE a [
<!ELEMENT a (b, c)>
<!ATTLIST a xml:content-mode CDATA #FIXED "CDATA">
<!ELEMENT b EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT c EMPTY>
]>
<a> <b/><c/></a>

It's true that a non-validating parser will have difficulty with the latter
example, but that is solved by putting the xml:content-mode attribute on the
instance.