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。)

它用于包含可能被视为xml的数据，因为它包含某些字符。

这样，里面的数据将被显示，但不会被解释。

从维基百科:

在XML文档或外部解析实体中，CDATA节是一个 元素内容的一部分，标记为供解析器解释 仅作为字符数据，而不是标记。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA

因此:CDATA中的文本被解析器视为字符，而不是XML节点。

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，这意味着这些字符串之间的数据包括可以解释为XML标记的数据，但不应该这样做。

CDATA和注释之间的主要区别是:

正如Richard指出的，CDATA仍然是文档的一部分，而注释不是。 在CDATA中不能包含字符串]]> (cend)，而在注释中—是无效的。 在注释中不能识别参数实体引用。

这意味着从一个格式良好的文档中给出以下四个XML片段:

<!ENTITY MyParamEntity "Has been expanded">

<!--
Within this comment I can use ]]>
and other reserved characters like <
&, ', and ", but %MyParamEntity; will not be expanded
(if I retrieve the text of this node it will contain
%MyParamEntity; and not "Has been expanded")
and I can't place two dashes next to each other.
-->

<![CDATA[
Within this Character Data block I can
use double dashes as much as I want (along with <, &, ', and ")
*and* %MyParamEntity; will be expanded to the text
"Has been expanded" ... however, I can't use
the CEND sequence. If I need to use CEND I must escape one of the
brackets or the greater-than sign using concatenated CDATA sections.
]]>

<description>An example of escaped CENDs</description>
<!-- This text contains a CEND ]]> -->
<!-- In this first case we put the ]] at the end of the first CDATA block
     and the > in the second CDATA block -->
<data><![CDATA[This text contains a CEND ]]]]><![CDATA[>]]></data>
<!-- In this second case we put a ] at the end of the first CDATA block
     and the ]> in the second CDATA block -->
<alternative><![CDATA[This text contains a CEND ]]]><![CDATA[]>]]></alternative>

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。