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Definition: Character data. CDATA is text in a document that should not be parsed by the XML parser. Any entities included in the CDATA block will not be replaced by their value and markup (such as HTML tags) will not be treated as markup.
Pronunciation: see day tuh (abbreviation)
Also Known As: Character data
Common Misspellings: cdata (lower case is incorrect)

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