On Oct 12, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Matthew Wild <mwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 October 2013 02:22, Field Tian (fitian) <fit...@cisco.com> wrote: >> Yea, cdata is a traditional way in XML. XMPP seems not prefer CDATA. I don’t >> know what's the detailed reason. But I think CDATA has its advantage >> sometimes. > > Some discussion on it from 2007: > http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2007-July/016098.html > > The specs have never been clear on cdata. By not forbidding it (things > like processing instructions are explicitly forbidden), it's > implicitly allowed. But I have strong doubts that many XMPP > implementations handle it properly, and nobody generates them for this > reason. Maybe it's time to do some testing, and get some hard facts :) > > Regards, > Matthew
+1 to gathering data before we reopen that can of worms.
