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Re: XML - NG

• From: <david@m...>
• To: "XML Dev" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:21:31 -0500 (EST)

Bill la Forge writes:

 > From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
 > 
 > >XML *has* CDATA attributes.  What are you thinking of here?
 > 
 > And here I thought you could not include &'s in attribute data.

That's not what a CDATA attribute means in SGML or XML -- the
terminology is admittedly confusing, but for attributes CDATA means
"not a token", while for content it means "restricted delimiter
recognition".  Neither XML nor SGML allows literal '&' in an attribute
value (except that SGML has bizarre delimiter-in-context rules that
allow you to use literal '&' and '<' sometimes).


All the best,


David

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