Re: Digest Number 130

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca> wrote:

> (a) put the HTML inside a CDATA section (to escape it, so to speak),
> or (b) use things like base64 encoding (and/or compression) to package
> the data up.  Both are, unfortunately, non-simple.....

There's also the option of using entity encoding (like &lt;br&gt;) -- this
is supported by almost all parsers and most HTML/XML-enabled scripting
environments. Of course, it's much harder than a CDATA section to read by
hand (which is the purpose of XML to begin with).

What's so non-simple about a CDATA section, though? It seems to me rather
easy to output the opening and closing CDATA tags. A problem may be that it
isn't properly supported by some parsers, but this is a fault of the parser
(since it is in the spec), and shouldn't be too difficult to remedy.

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