[jdom-interest] CDATA inconsistency

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:08 PM -0800 11/1/02, Malachi de AElfweald wrote:
>It would be against XML spec to check the characters within the 
>CDATA, since the spec
>says that CDATA is "unparsed character data". Seems like parsing it 
>wouldn't fit the description, eh?
>

No, that's not quite true. there are a number of characters which 
cannot appear in a CDATA section. These include many C0 controls such 
as null and vertical tab, unmatched halves of surrogate pairs, and a 
few other undefined code points. The three character sequence ]]> is 
also illegal.
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