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RE: [xml-dev] XML in Real Life

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To: "'John Cowan'" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML in Real Life
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:42:38 -0000
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In-reply-to: <200301311406.JAA27050@mail2.reutershealth.com>
Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>

> Yesterday I received a letter addressed thus:
> 
> 	JOHN &AMP GALE COWAN
> 
> Gale's my wife.  There was no semicolon, though.

When the UK Inland Revenue launched on-line submission of tax returns,
they explained that they couldn't handle a tax return containing "&" or
"<" characters. Apparently the system cost ?50M to develop...

Michael Kay
Software AG

References:
- XML in Real Life
  - From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>

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