<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">it's used in xml to insert chunks of code that may contain special xml chars - since the script has < and > in it, you have to use cdata tags to insert it.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>it's usually used with xhtml 1.1 pages if you are sending the data as application/xhtml+xml mime type... but in 99% of cases you don't need the cdata tag in there because people usually send the pages as text/html, in which case the browser doesn't really care and will render it properly anyway. another issue is that depending on your doctype, the html valudators might complain if you don't have your code in cdata tags.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:09 PM, skala manda wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Just curious, but does anyone have an idea why the 'CDATA' tag was added?<BR><BR>- richard<BR><BR><B><I>eric dolecki <<A href="mailto:edolecki@gmail.com">edolecki@gmail.com</A>></I></B> wrote:<BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <A href="http://www.christinaaguilera.com/">http://www.christinaaguilera.com/</A><BR><BR>;)<BR> _______________________________________________<BR>SWFObject mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A><BR>http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1">Do you Yahoo!?<BR> Next-gen email? Have it all with the <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handraisers"> all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SWFObject mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>