# Traversing the DOM

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krilnon, that’s because CDATA sections are specific to XML documents and are unsupported in HTML. Where they are supported, [CDATASections are text nodes](http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-667469212). See for example, this XHTML Strict document:

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/7150/aa779b3fcbe74732.png)

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