Bug in firefox using cdata

I seem to have a bug when attaching an xml file with cdata
tags in it, works fine in IE but not in any other browser, all i
get is undefined, yet there is a tutorial on the cs3 dvd showing
that you can use xml with cdata in it.
any ideas?

Hey Daz,
Is your XML public?
First suspicions are that there are special characters that
are not encoded in your CDATA...
Thanks,
Don

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Revision: 17010
Revision: 17010
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-07-22 02:52:41 -0700 (Thu, 22 Jul 2010)
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