XML CDATA Literal

<![CDATA[

Required. Denotes the start of the XML CDATA section.

content

Required. Text content to appear in the XML CDATA section.

]]>

Required. Denotes the end of the section.

An XCData object.

XML CDATA sections contain raw text that should be included, but not parsed, with the XML that contains it. A XML CDATA section can contain any text. This includes reserved XML characters. The XML CDATA section ends with the sequence "]]>". This implies the following points:

• You cannot use an embedded expression in an XML CDATA literal because the embedded expression delimiters are valid XML CDATA content.

• XML CDATA sections cannot be nested, because content cannot contain the value "]]>".

You can assign an XML CDATA literal to a variable, or include it in an XML element literal.

Note:
An XML literal can span multiple lines but does not use line continuation characters. This enables you to copy content from an XML document and paste it directly into a Visual Basic program.

The Visual Basic compiler converts the XML CDATA literal to a call to the XCData constructor.

The following example creates a CDATA section that contains the text "Can contain literal <XML> tags".

Dim cdata As XCData = <![CDATA[Can contain literal <XML> tags]]>

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