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- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML in Real Life
- From: Andy Greener <andy@gid.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:41:20 +0000
- In-reply-to: <001401c2c960$e9aabf40$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
- References: <001401c2c960$e9aabf40$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
At 7:42 pm +0000 31/1/03, Michael Kay wrote:
> > Yesterday I received a letter addressed thus:
>>
>> JOHN & 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
John's letter arrived "yesterday". You're talking about a service that
was launched in 2000 (ancient history! ;-). The assertion is certainly
not true now.
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