1) Standardize the existing behavior of the implementation, so that startElement("CDATA", component) and endElement("CDATA") start and end CDATA blocks.

This seems like a pretty big hack, which many uses of XML turn into. Perhaps provide a string constant with a qualified value (javax.faces.writer.CDATA)?

-Dan

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