On 12 October 2013 02:22, Field Tian (fitian) <[email protected]> wrote: > Yea, cdata is a traditional way in XML. XMPP seems not prefer CDATA. I don’t > know what's the detailed reason. But I think CDATA has its advantage > sometimes.
Some discussion on it from 2007: http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2007-July/016098.html The specs have never been clear on cdata. By not forbidding it (things like processing instructions are explicitly forbidden), it's implicitly allowed. But I have strong doubts that many XMPP implementations handle it properly, and nobody generates them for this reason. Maybe it's time to do some testing, and get some hard facts :) Regards, Matthew
