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Re: [xml-dev] Why is the > symbol a reserved character?
- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:44:03 +0100
> On 09/07/2010 13:57, Michael Kay wrote:
>> n attribute values, > is reserved, which is pretty pointless, and this
>> is entirely due to SGML legacy, which allows the quotes around the
>> attribute value to be omitted.
>
> You mean < here rather than > (which can be used in attribute values)
Yes, sorry, got that wrong.
When XSLT serializes, it MUST escape "<" when generating XML, and it
MUST NOT do so when generating HTML. Wish I could remember why.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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