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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:11:35 -0500 (EST)
Don Park scripsit:
> Hmm, I see now. The relevant sentence is: "The right angle
> bracket (>) MAY be represented using the string ">", and
> MUST, for compatibility, be escaped using ">" or a
> character reference when it appears in the string "]]>" in
> content, when that string is not marking the end of a CDATA
> section."
What was the SGML reason for forbidding ]]> in parsed character data?
> 'for compatibility' is defined as: "A feature of XML included
> solely to ensure that XML remains compatible with SGML."
>
> I think it is fairly safe to say that SML will not be
> compatible with SGML.
Well, surely there will be some escape for < provided in SML.
Suppose it is <, which is both XML and HTML. In that case,
it wouldn't be much brain strain to require > for >, thus
retaining XML-compatibility.
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