]]> in cdata tags

[yawnmoth]

How might I go about including a ]]> in a cdata tag? Since ]]>'s
normally close cdata's, ]]>, by itself, wouldn't work...

 

[Johannes Koch]

How might I go about including a ]]> in a cdata tag? Since ]]>'s
normally close cdata's, ]]>, by itself, wouldn't work...

<![CDATA[...]]>]]><![CDATA[...]]>

 

[Richard Tobin]

How might I go about including a ]]> in a cdata tag? Since ]]>'s
normally close cdata's, ]]>, by itself, wouldn't work...

You can't. CDATA sections are not a reliable way of escaping
arbitrary text, just a handy way of making hand-authored XML more
readable. If you need a reliable way to do it, forget CDATA and just
escape everything.

-- Richard

 

[Joe Kesselman]

<![CDATA[...]]>]]><![CDATA[...]]>

Or break the sequence up across successive CDATA Sections, such as
<![CDATA[...]]]]><![CDATA[>...]]>
or
<![CDATA[...]]]><![CDATA[]>...]]>

Or, as noted, stop trying to use CDATA Sections and just escape
individual characters as needed.