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Re: Article: "The horror of XML"

• To: jenglish@f... (Joe English)
• Subject: Re: Article: "The horror of XML"
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:34:40 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200210311700.g9VH0h303855@d...> from "Joe English" at Oct 31, 2002 09:00:43 AM

Joe English scripsit:

> What well-formedness errors are possible in a synthetic Infoset?
> The only ones I can spot are:
> 
>     + duplicated attribute names on an element
>     + processing instructions whose [content] property contains
>       a PIC delimiter (?>)
>     + comments containing a COM delimiter (--)
>     + illegal characters in element and attribute names
>       (this one is questionable)
>     + countless namespace pathologies

Invalid characters in content or attribute values.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        jcowan@r...
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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