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> Why is it that the well known escape mechanism of using a > release character (like '\') for escaping special characters > (eg. '<','&') not used in XML? Because XML is a subset of SGML which does not use such a mechanism. If XML had been a new system designed from scratch, it might well have been much simpler in many respects. On the other hand, it would probably not have succeeded. -- Richard 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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