“The term CDATA, meaning character data, is used for distinct, but related, purposes in the markup languages SGML and XML. The term indicates that a certain portion of the document is generalcharacter data, rather than non-character data or character data with a more specific, limited structure.”
— CDATA @ Wikipedia
See Also
- XML CDATA @ w3schools.org
- Basic HTML Data Types @ w3c
- JavaScript and XHTML
- When is a CDATA section necessary within a script tag? @ Stack Overflow
