• From: Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@v...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:26:31 -0400

[Default] On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:08:59 -0400, John Cowan
<johnwcowan@g...> wrote:

| The real answer is "Because that's the way SGML did it."

Correct.  XML was "designed" as Sgml-Lite.   

• References:
  • Why isn't the semicolon a reserved character?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • Re: Why isn't the semicolon a reserved character?
    • From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@g...>