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Reputation: 2941

In XML, Can CData exist alongside another node?

Is this a valid XML?

<foo>
    <![CDATA[<bar>]]>
    <sibling></sibling>
</foo>

Can all XML Parsers parse this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 45

Answers (2)

Andreas Veithen
Andreas Veithen

Reputation: 9164

That XML fragment is certainly well formed. Whether it is valid depends on the XML schema (or DTD) that you use to validate it.

Upvotes: 0

har07
har07

Reputation: 89325

CData alongside other node is fine, it doesn't break well-formed-ness of the XML document. Given that fact, all decent XML parser should be able to parse such structure.

From XML 1.0 specification :

[Definition: CDATA sections may occur anywhere character data may occur; they are used to escape blocks of text containing characters which would otherwise be recognized as markup. CDATA sections begin with the string " <![CDATA[ " and end with the string " ]]> ":].

Upvotes: 1

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