X. Lee wrote:
I am creating an xml schema, and I want one of the elements to include
html text.
You mean HTML markup? In general, this is A Bad Idea. If the markup is
important, represent it in the schema. If it's not, remove it.
Therefore, I want to make that element a CDATA elements so
that it can accept html tags as part of it's value. I'm having
trouble doing this though. Can anyone give me a sample of how to do
that?
You can't do this in XML. If you want to declare CDATA content you have
to use SGML instead, eg
<!element foo - - CDATA>
but even so most SGML parsers will reject any attempt to use an end-tag
inside the element.
so if this is my xml instance:
<root>
<element><!CDATA[something]]></element>
</root>
how would I create an xml schema so that my instance is valid against
that schema?
Doing it that way (with a manually-inserted CDATA Marked Section) is fine
(except you're missing an open-square bracket before the keyword CDATA).
The instance will always be valid, because the parser will suspend the
recognition of < and & until it encounters ]]>.
///Peter
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