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Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names

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To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:18:56 -0700
Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> Interesting idea and a neat hack. If I'm reading this write, though, it 
> would require writing &lt; in XML as &&lt; and so forth for other 
> genuine entity and character references.

Nope, &&; in the UTF-8+names encoding represents a single & character. 
&lt; represents nothing but &lt;, since it's not defined to represent 
anything else by UTF-8+names.  &uuml; represents the single 
u-with-umlaut character, because that's inherited from HTML. -Tim

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