PCDATA is an acronym for parsed character data. pcdata is character data which is parsed by a parser, and will be examined by the parser for entities and markup.

In Xport, pcdata is represented by the a class template xhtml_pcdata, and is typedefed with the following type aliases.

• pcdata - Used for xhtml strict documents, narrow characters.
• wpcdata - Used for xhtml strict documents, wide characters.
• tpcdata - Used for xhtml transitional documents, narrow characters.
• wtpcdata - Used for xhtml transitional documents, wide characters.
• fpcdata - Used for xhtml frameset documents, narrow characters.
• wfpcdata - Used for xhtml frameset documents, wide characters.