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 > Interesting idea and a neat hack. If I'm reading this write, though, > it would require writing < in XML as &< and so forth for other > genuine entity and character references. Actually it says: In UTF-8+names, the sequence consisting of an "&", a character string, and a ";" is called a "replacement". The characters contained between the "&" and the ";" are called the "replacement name" and the Unicode character sequence which is represented is called the "replacement value." and then says: For replacements whose names are not given a replacement value by this specification, the replacement value is identical to the replacement name. For example, the replacement "&U2;" represents the Unicode character sequence of length 4 containing the characters U+0026 AMPERSAND, U+0055 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U, U+0032 DIGIT TWO, and U+003B SEMICOLON. The two sentences here are in conflict. The rule tells you thatt the replacement value for < is "LT", while the example suggests it is "<". (Another observation on this rule: it means that the set of names that is recognized is frozen for all time, it can never be extended.) I think you would have to write < as &&;lt; If you believe the example rather than the rule above is correct, you could also write it as &<; or as < Either way, the thousands of poor users who are already badly confused about entity references are going to become even more confused. Michael Kay 
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