All text in an XML document will be parsed by the parser. But text inside a CDATA section will be ignored by the parser. CDATA – (Unparsed) Character Data The term CDATA is used about text data that should not be parsed by the XML parser. Characters like “<” and “&” are illegal in XML … Read more
You have to break your data into pieces to conceal the ]]>. Here’s the whole thing: <![CDATA[]]]]><![CDATA[>]]> The first <![CDATA[]]]]> has the ]]. The second <![CDATA[>]]> has the >.
You’re probably not accessing it correctly. You can output it directly or cast it as a string. (in this example, the casting is superfluous, as echo automatically does it anyway) $content = simplexml_load_string( ‘<content><![CDATA[Hello, world!]]></content>’ ); echo (string) $content; // or with parent element: $foo = simplexml_load_string( ‘<foo><content><![CDATA[Hello, world!]]></content></foo>’ ); echo (string) $foo->content; You might … Read more
A CDATA section is required if you need your document to parse as XML (e.g. when an XHTML page is interpreted as XML) and you want to be able to write literal i<10 and a && b instead of i<10 and a && b, as XHTML will parse the JavaScript code as parsed character data … Read more
CDATA stands for Character Data and it means that the data in between these strings includes data that could be interpreted as XML markup, but should not be. The key differences between CDATA and comments are: As Richard points out, CDATA is still part of the document, while a comment is not. In CDATA you … Read more