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class=126055023-21062006>Richard.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=126055023-21062006>Perhaps the html page (or the swf object code
block) is being generated from an XML source ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=126055023-21062006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=126055023-21062006><FONT color=#0000ff>CDATA XML Sections are ignored by
the XML parser during validation so you can place code with special characters
or non valid html without worry. Things like double quotes (or html marked up
text with <p> <b> tags etc) which would normally need to be escaped
in xml markup can be put safely within a CDATA tag.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=126055023-21062006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=126055023-21062006>As an example, the below would break the XML parsing
due to the "<" symbol in the xml element text:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#000000><SPAN class=126055023-21062006><FONT
face=Arial size=2><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#800000><message>if salary < 1000
then</message></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><PRE><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You would have to do something like the below to get around it normally:</FONT></PRE><PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800000 size=2><message>if salary < 1000 then</message></FONT></PRE></PRE></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><SPAN
class=126055023-21062006><FONT color=#0000ff>The CDATA solution
is:</FONT><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#800000 size=2><SPAN
class=126055023-21062006><message></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#800000 size=2><SPAN
class=126055023-21062006> <![CDATA[if salary < 1000
then]]></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#000000><SPAN class=126055023-21062006><FONT
face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800000
size=2></message></FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT><SPAN class=126055023-21062006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>BTW - Check out some flex code if you want to see a lot of
CDATA tags :)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT><SPAN class=126055023-21062006><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#000000><SPAN class=126055023-21062006><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Aran</FONT></DIV></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>skala
manda<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 22 June 2006 2:10 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
swfobject@lists.deconcept.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [SWFObject] check the
source on this site...<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Just curious, but does anyone have an idea why the 'CDATA'
tag was added?<BR><BR>- richard<BR><BR><B><I>eric dolecki
<edolecki@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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