3.5 Marked sections

A feature you will occasionally use in documents is the `marked section'. As an author, you will most likely only ever use the CDATA marked section, but the IGNORE and INCLUDE marked sections might also be useful, as well as being common within DTDs.

A marked section is a construction such as

Here is some text <![ CDATA [ with <odds> & sods ]]>

Here is some text <![ IGNORE [ and here is some ignored text ]]>

The marked section ends at the sequence of characters ]]>, which is therefore the one sequence which cannot appear within the marked section.

There are some further technical details in Appendix A.5.

• 1. CDATA marked sections
• 2. Paper-only and web-only variants