> im trying to convert an asp site to cfm and im going through
> an xml output and i come across this code
>
> Response.Write "<reply><![CDATA["
> Response.Write rs("reply")
> Response.Write "]]></reply>"
>
> not sure what the CDATA is??????
>
> what do i do with it?
>
> is it ok to just do this?
>
> <reply>
>   <![CDATA[#recordset.reply#]]>
> </reply>
>
> or can i take it out?

The CDATA is an XML type that allows you to tell the XML parser not to try
to parse its contents. This allows you to safely include XML metacharacters
(<,> and so on) in your data. So, you probably don't want to take it out of
the code.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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