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Re: 3 basic XML questions on: non-determism, reserved symbols,and xml:la

• From: Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@e...>
• To: Mike Brown <mike@s...>, "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:28:30 -0500

5/23/01 11:49:46 AM, Mike Brown <mike@s...> wrote:

>">" must be escaped when it follows "]]" and is character data, not markup
>indicating the end of a CDATA section. This is supposedly for (SGML?)

Nope.  There's no way to escape a ">" in that situation, because CDATA sections aren't parsed for 
entity references or character references.  "]]&gt;" in a CDATA section means character data 
consisting of two left square brackets, an ampersand, the two letters "g" and "t", and a semicolon.

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