{"id":14093,"date":"2024-03-15T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-cdata-tag-in-mybatis\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:43:25","slug":"what-is-the-purpose-of-the-cdata-tag-in-mybatis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-cdata-tag-in-mybatis\/","title":{"rendered":"MyBatis CDATA Tag: Purpose and Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of the CDATA tag in MyBatis is to escape special characters in SQL statements or XML content.<\/p>\n<p>Special characters such as <, >, &#038; may appear in SQL statements or XML content in MyBatis. To prevent parsing errors or unexpected results, these special characters can be escaped by using the CDATA tag.<\/p>\n<p>The format of using the CDATA tag is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>The content inside the CDATA tag will be treated as text and not parsed. 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