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title: "What is a CDATA section in XML?"  
description: "What is a CDATA section in XML?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-09-17  
updated: 2020-09-19  
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# What is a CDATA section in XML?

The term CDATA is used when you dont want some text data to be parsed by the XML parser.

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

The term CDATA is used when you dont want some text data to be parsed by the XML parser.


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