Re: [xml-dev] Why isn't the semicolon a reserved character?

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From: Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@verizon.net>
To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:26:31 -0400

[Default] On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:08:59 -0400, John Cowan
<johnwcowan@gmail.com> wrote:

| The real answer is "Because that's the way SGML did it."

Correct.  XML was "designed" as Sgml-Lite.

References:
- Why isn't the semicolon a reserved character?
  - From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
- Re: [xml-dev] Why isn't the semicolon a reserved character?
  - From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>

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