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Re: Element content

• To: David LeBlanc <whisper@o...>
• Subject: Re: Element content
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:42:26 -0800
• Cc: "Xml-Dev@Lists. Xml. Org" <xml-dev@l...>
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David LeBlanc wrote:
> A question has arisen about element content. I'm reasonably sure I've read
> that it's illegal for an element to contain itself either directly or
> indirectly. Is this correct, and if so, can someone point me to the relevant
> section of the XML Recommendation please?

Perfectly legal, happens all the time.  Now *entities* can't contain 
themselves, but that's a different kettle of markup -Tim

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