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@@ -74,6 +74,25 @@ Unicode character. There are no longer any smartQuotesTo or convert_entities arguments. (Unicode Dammit still has smart_quotes_to, but the default is now to turn smart quotes into Unicode.) +== CDATA sections are normal text, if they're understood at all. == + +Currently, both HTML parsers ignore CDATA sections in markup: + + <p><![CDATA[foo]]></p> => <p></p> + +A future version of html5lib will turn CDATA sections into text nodes, +but only within tags like <svg> and <math>: + + <svg><![CDATA[foo]]></svg> => <p>foo</p> + +The default XML parser (which uses lxml behind the scenes) turns CDATA +sections into ordinary text elements: + + <p><![CDATA[foo]]></p> => <p>foo</p> + +In theory it's possible to preserve the CDATA sections when using the +XML parser, but I don't see how to get it to work in practice. + = 3.1.0 = A hybrid version that supports 2.4 and can be automatically converted |