Errors with CDATA

Issue

Characters are not escaping correctly with CDATA tags.

Answer

Best practices using CDATA tags--you want the following to appear on our platform:

<b>I say hello world</b>

DO
Do encase entire string with CDATA.

<string name="hello"><![CDATA[<b>I say hello world</b>]]></string>

DO NOT

DO NOT have multiple CDATA tags in one string

<string name="hello"><![CDATA[<b>]]>I say hello world<![CDATA[</b>]]></string>

DO NOT encase a CDATA tag within another CDATA tag

<string name="hello"><![CDATA[<b>I say<![CDATA[extra tag]]>hello world]]></string>

 DO NOT have text before or after the CDATA tags. This will cause issues doing import and export

<string name="hello">I say<![CDATA[<b>hello world</b>]]></string>

Lastly, DO NOT manually add CDATA tags through the online platform. Any CDATA tags should exist in the imported source file.

*Note: Android XML HTML tags do not require CDATA tags to escape correctly.