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Re: Create XML

• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: Create XML
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:12:33 -0400
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Rich Salz scripsit:

> Developers should feel safe and comfortable generating XML with print
> statements, knowing that only < and & are special. I'm sure (as your
> article points out), it *can* be more complicated, but in most cases it
> never needs be.

It's safest to treat > as special too, because of the bare possibility
of ]]> in character content.

And of course attribute values need &apos; or &quot;.

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