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- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- To: "Amit Rekhi" <amitr@abinfosys.com>, "xml list" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:11:12 +0100 (BST)
> Why is it that the well known escape mechanism of using a
> release character (like '\') for escaping special characters
> (eg. '<','&') not used in XML?
Because XML is a subset of SGML which does not use such a mechanism.
If XML had been a new system designed from scratch, it might well have
been much simpler in many respects. On the other hand, it would
probably not have succeeded.
-- Richard
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