Difference between PCDATA and CDATA in DTD

Question

What is the difference between #PCDATA and #CDATA in DTD?

Answer 1

PCDATA – parsed character data. It parses all the data in an XML document.

Example:

    mom
    dad

Here, the element contains 2 more elements: and . So it parses further to get the text of mother and father to give the text value of family as “mom dad”

CDATA – unparsed character Data. This is the data that should not be parsed further in an xml document.

    mom
       dad
    ]]>

Here, the text value of family will be momdad.