XML Using CDATA for Dealing with HTML Tags

In an XML file, if an element contains HTML tags, it could cause problem because HTML tags have the similar format as XML tags. For example, "<table>", "<b>". By putting text inside a CDATA section, the HTML tags will be ignored by the parser.

A CDATA section starts with "<![CDATA[" and ends with "]]>". For example:

<title>
<![CDATA[<h2>Welcome to www.SelectaGPS.com</h2>]]>
</title>

By this way, the parser will know "<title>" is an element tag of the XML file, but "<h2>" is not an XML element tag.

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