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6 XML::DOM::CDATASection - Escaping XML text blocks in XML::DOM
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9 XML::DOM::CDATASection extends XML::DOM::CharacterData which extends
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12 CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters
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15 section. CDATA sections can not be nested. The primary purpose is for
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19 The DOMString attribute of the Text node holds the text that is con‐
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23 impossible to write out some characters as part of a CDATA section.
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25 The CDATASection interface inherits the CharacterData interface through
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29 NOTE: XML::DOM::Parser and XML::DOM::ValParser convert all CDATASec‐
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