PCDATA In XML

XML / By
PCDATA acronyms for Parsed Character Data. Data of this section is parsed by XML Parser and unlike CDATA section we can not use special character in this section. “#PCDATA” is a token used in an element declaration to declare the element as having mixed content (character data, or character data mixed with other elements). The content of the element is parsed; ‘&’ and ‘<‘ have special meaning and must be escaped if they aren’t the start of markup.
“#PCDATA” is a token used in an element declaration to declare the element as having mixed content. The content of the element is parsed; ‘&’ and ‘<‘ have special meaning and must be escaped if they aren’t the start of markup. This means if you use any unescaped special character such as & etc in a PCDATA section parser will generate error the XML file is parsed.
 
<script>
<![CDATA[
var salary;
function showSalary(amount)
{
if (amount<=5000) then
{
    salary=amount+(amount*.10);
}
else
{
    salary=amount+(amount*.08);
}
}
]]> </script>
 
remember when this script will be written inside any XML tag browser will display error while parsing this data.
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