cdata

I sometimes notice a CSS or JS code surrounded with <![CDATA[ and ]]> tags. I couldn't find any explanation to this. What does CDATA do? Why is it used by some people and what is it needed for? It tells the interpreter that it should not try to interpret the data enclosed in the tags. For example, if you want a XML file to contain a comment with < or >, XML interpreters will report the file as invalid because the caracters < and > will not be part of standard tag. You simply have to surround the code with the CDATA tags. It marks data that shouldn't be parsed - in most cases, just HTML or text

I have a CDATA tag within my XML code which contains some hyperlinks. <smartText><![CDATA[ Among individual stocks, the top percentage gainers in the S.&P. 500 are <a href ='http://investing.domain.com/research/stocks/snapshot /snapshot.asp?ric=LNC'>Lincoln National Corp</a> and <a href ='http://investing.domain.com/research/stocks/snapshot /snapshot.asp?ric=PLD'>ProLogis</a>.]]> </smartText> I am trying to transform it into an HTML page as follows... <p class="smartText"> <xsl:copy-of select="marketSummaryModuleData/smartText"/> </p> Unfortunately the output onto the page shows up in pure

it seems that a loose definition of PCDATA and CDATA is that PCDATA is character data, but is to be parsed. CDATA is character data, and is not to be parsed. but then someone told me that CDATA is actually parsed or PCDATA is actually not parsed... so it is a bit of a confusion. Does anyone know the real deal is? Update : I actually added the PCDATA definition on Wikipedia... so don't take that answer too seriously as that's only my rough understanding of it. From WIKI: PCDATA Simply speaking, PCDATA stands for Parsed Character Data. That means the characters are to be parsed by the XML, XHTML

This is my xml. My goal is to wrap the data inside the Value node with CDATA on an export and then import that back into an Xml type column with the CDATA removed. <Custom> <Table>Shape</Table> <Column>CustomScreen</Column> <Value>Data</Value> <Custom> Right now I am replacing 'Data' inside the Value node with the XML from the table and then I believe I am putting CData around it, Where ShapeInfo is type XML and CustomPanel is the first node of [ShapeInfo] XML. SET @OutputXML= replace(@OutputXML, 'Data', CAST((SELECT [ShapeInfo] FROM [Shape] WHERE [Shape_ID] = @ShapeID) as VARCHAR(MAX)) SET

I have a table in my database with a column containing xml. The column type is nvarchar(max). The xml is formed in this way <root> <child>....</child> . . <special> <event><![CDATA[text->text]]></event> <event><![CDATA[text->text]]></event> ... </special> </root> I have not created the db, I cannot change the way information is stored in it but I can retrieve it with a select. For the extraction I use select cast(replace(xml,'utf-8','utf-16')as xml) from table It works well except for cdata, whose content in the query output is: text -> text Is there a way to retrieve also the CDATA tags? Well

I've got an XML document that contains a tag that has well-formed HTML content. I need to get that HTML into my page using JavaScript. However, due to CMS issues, the HTML CANNOT be escaped with < ![CDATA[ ]]> or anything else, and the <> must be present, not encoded to &lt ; &gt ; <submenu> <content> <div> <h3>Hello World</h3> <p>Lorem <a href="ipsum.html">ipsum</a></p> </div> </content> </submenu> I've used jQuery to get the XML and put the submenu's into an array. I'm able to get the text with: $(menuArray[n]).find('content').text(); However, this just returns "Hello World Lorem ipsum". I