Outside of a few special cases (such as wanting to make embedded content in XML human editable) CDATA should be treated as a big warning flag that the author of the code that generated the XML doesn't really understand what they are doing.
There's always the issue that one day ']]>' will somehow sneak in and everything will break.
The key is using a tool to generate the XML that will transparently handle things like escaping correctly instead of using templating tools designed for text or HTML output.
There's always the issue that one day ']]>' will somehow sneak in and everything will break.
The key is using a tool to generate the XML that will transparently handle things like escaping correctly instead of using templating tools designed for text or HTML output.