Re: [xml-dev] Why is < illegal in an attribute value but theequivalent h

[Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>]

In response to my question:

1. Why is it that < is illegal but the equivalent hex
and decimal character entities are legal?

Liam Quin answered:

Because numeric character references are always 
treated as data when they are read, not markup.

Ah!!!!!!!!!!

So this is perfectly well-formed XML:

<Test foo="&#x3C;x>blah&#x3C;/x>"/>

And the numeric character references will be replaced during the parsing process to yield this:

<Test foo="<x>blah</x>"/>

Correct?

/Roger