A wise old hermit known only as Nortje, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> once
said:
> I noticed that the jboss finder syntax generated in jaws.xml looks like
> this
>
> <finder>
> <name>findByCountry</name>
> <query><![CDATA[countryAbbreviation = {1}]]></query>
> <order></order>
> </finder>
>
> In the jboss online manual there is not ![CDATA and I have never used it
> myself before. What does the CDATA mean?
It's standard XML syntax, signifying the contents are character data and
so not to be parsed further. This means it can include tag-like text
(e.g. "This <word> isn't actually a tag") without having to worry about
escaping it or stuff like that. In the particular case you mention, I
guess it's there in case you want to have e.g. "WHERE column1 < 10"
without it thinking the '<' sign is part of an XML tag and so throwing a
parse error.
Andrew.
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