xml-dev - Re: Possible changes for XML 2nd Edition

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Steve Schafer scripsit:

> Speaking of which, I don't know if there is an existing erratum or
> not, but I find the language of section 2.4 to be ambiguous and
> confusing. In particular, these two sentences seem to be in direct
> contradiction:
> 
> "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..."
> 
> "In the content of elements, character data is any string of
> characters which does not contain the start-delimiter of any markup."

No real conflict, I think.  It's true that a CDATA section is always in the
content of some element, but the second sentence refers to the
*immediate* character-data content of elements. 

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
	Yes, I know the message date is bogus.  I can't help it.
		--me, on far too many occasions

***************************************************************************
This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers.
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@xml.org&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev
List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
***************************************************************************