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In article <00b601bf68c3$75fb0600$8d6536ca@S...>, Amit Rekhi <amitr@a...> wrote: >I have not been able to understand the reason why production rule [14]: > >CharData: [^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*) > >is not written like: > >CharData: [^<&]* - ']]>' Your rule would accept any string of non-<& characters except the string ']]>'. The rule in the spec accepts any string of non-<& characters except ones *containing* the string ']]>'. >- How would rule [14] behave with the following strings? >1) abc]]> >2) abc]]>def It rejects them both, as intended. Actually, the rule could have been more simply written [^<&]* - (Char* ']]>' Char*) -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. "The Internet is really just a series of bottlenecks joined by high speed networks." - Sam Wilson 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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Unsubscribe by posting to majordom@i... the message unsubscribe xml-dev (or) unsubscribe xml-dev your-subscribed-email@your-subscribed-address Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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