• To: "'John Cowan'" <jcowan@r...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML in Real Life
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:42:38 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <200301311406.JAA27050@m...>
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> Yesterday I received a letter addressed thus:
> 
> 	JOHN &AMP GALE COWAN
> 
> Gale's my wife.  There was no semicolon, though.

When the UK Inland Revenue launched on-line submission of tax returns,
they explained that they couldn't handle a tax return containing "&" or
"<" characters. Apparently the system cost ?50M to develop...

Michael Kay
Software AG

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