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Chris Maden wrote: > You are correct; ']]>' is forbidden in element content, as it should > be. This is cruft from SGML; the msc/mdc combination (marked section > close = ']]', markup declaration close = '>') is always recognized as > a delimiter (see Figure 3, ISO 8879). As a result, XML mandates that > this combination always be escaped using ']]>' unless it actually > closes a marked section. The reason for this is not just SGML compatibility, it is robustness. A floating MDC is almost certainly an error in the document. If I accidently end a CDATA marked section twice, I want to *know*. Paul Prescod xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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