From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-01-09T08:15:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Another REXML Question

Mark Probert wrote:

> Suppose I have some HTML that I want to embed in my XML.
> How do I specify it without REXML wanting to process it?
> 
> e.g.   <text> Let's make this text <b>bold</b> </text>

This is a more general XML issue (i.e. not REXML-specific), but you'd 
want to include that text in a CDATA section:

     <text><![CDATA[Here's some <b>bold</b> text]]></text>

When an XML parser sees the leading text:

     <![CDATA[

it knows that a CDATA section follows, and that it will be terminated by 
the sequence:

     ]]>

The text between those two markers is *not* interpreted as markup, and 
you can more or less throw whatever feels good in there.

Hope this helps,

Lyle