If we have the following XML element:
<x>a < b</x>
and the another one
<y>a<![CDATA[ < ]]>b</y>
Do both elements x and y have the value of a < b? Is the second example valid, common, recommended or something like that?
AFAK y has three child elements - PCDATA a, CDATA < and PCDATA b and some libraries parse it exactly like that. On the other hand https://pugixml.org/ for one returns only a as value for x (helper function).