CDATA代表字符数据。您可以使用它来转义某些字符，否则这些字符将被视为常规XML。其中的数据将不会被解析。 例如，如果你想传递一个包含&的URL，你可以使用CDATA来实现。否则，您将得到一个错误，因为它将被解析为常规XML。

一个大的用例:你的xml包含一个程序，作为数据(例如Java的网页教程)。在这种情况下，您的数据包含大量字符，其中包括'&'和'<'，但这些字符并不是xml字符。

比较:

<example-code>
while (x &lt; len &amp;&amp; !done) {
    print( &quot;Still working, &apos;zzz&apos;.&quot; );
    ++x;
    }
</example-code>

with

<example-code><![CDATA[
while (x < len && !done) {
    print( "Still working, 'zzzz'." );
    ++x;
    }
]]></example-code>

Especially if you are copy/pasting this code from a file (or including it, in a pre-processor), it's nice to just have the characters you want in your xml file, w/o confusing them with XML tags/attributes. As @paary mentioned, other common uses include when you're embedding URLs that contain ampersands. Finally, even if the data only contains a few special characters but the data is very very long (the text of a chapter, say), it's nice to not have to be en/de-coding those few entities as you edit your xml file.

(我怀疑所有与评论的比较都有点误导/没有帮助。)

当我的xml元素需要存储HTML代码时，我曾经不得不使用CDATA。类似的

<codearea>
  <![CDATA[ 
  <div> <p> my para </p> </div> 
  ]]>
</codearea>

CDATA意味着它会忽略任何可以被解释为XML标签的字符，比如<和>等。

Cdata是您可能希望传递给xml解析器但仍然不解释为xml的数据。

Say for eg :- You have an xml which has encapsulates question/answer object . Such open fields can have any data which does not strictly fall under basic data type or xml defined custom data types. Like --Is this a correct tag for xml comment ? .-- You may have a requirement to pass it as it is without being interpreted by the xml parser as another child element. Here Cdata comes to your rescue . By declaring as Cdata you are telling the parser don't treat the data wrapped as an xml (though it may look like one )

CDATA代表字符数据。您可以使用它来转义某些字符，否则这些字符将被视为常规XML。其中的数据将不会被解析。 例如，如果你想传递一个包含&的URL，你可以使用CDATA来实现。否则，您将得到一个错误，因为它将被解析为常规XML。

其中包含的数据不会被解析为XML，因此不需要是有效的XML，或者可以包含看似XML但实际上不是的元素。