[Python-Dev] Encoding of code in XML

[Paul Prescod]

Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> 
> ...
>
> CDATA sections are not part of the markup, so the XML parser
> is allowed to coallese the multiple CDATA sections and other character
> data into one string before it gives it to the application.

Allowed but not required. Most SAX parsers will not. Some DOM parsers
will and some won't. :(

> So, yes, this requires smarts on the XML parsing stage, but I think
> those smarts need to be there anyway.

I don't follow this part. Typically those "smarts" are not there. At the
end of one CDATA section you get an event and at the beginning of the
next you get a different event. It's the application's job to glue them
together. :( Fixing this is one of the goals of EventDOM.

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