To answer this question, you need to understand how to handle special characters and data in XML documents. Let's go through each option to understand why it is correct or incorrect:
Option A) - This option is correct because it uses the CDATA section to indicate that the enclosed text should be ignored by the XML parser. CDATA sections are used to include blocks of text that may contain characters that are normally treated as markup, such as angle brackets or ampersands.
Option B) - This option is incorrect because it uses an invalid syntax. The "xml:" prefix is not used for CDATA sections.
Option C) Text to be ignored - This option is incorrect because it uses the PCDATA (Parsed Character Data) element, which is used to define text that should be parsed by the XML parser. It does not indicate that the text should be ignored.
Option D) Text to be ignored - This option is incorrect because it uses an invalid syntax. The correct syntax for a CDATA section is .
The correct answer is A) . This option is correct because it correctly uses the CDATA section to indicate that the enclosed text should be ignored by the XML parser.