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RE: Why is the > symbol a reserved character?

• From: Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@ca.ibm.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:09:14 -0400

On example is "]]>". It isn't allowed in the content of an element, so you have to escape it:

"]]>" --> "]]&gt;"

I guess you could also use a char ref for the ']' to break up the sequence.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-CharData

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org

"Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org> wrote on 07/09/2010 08:53:42 AM:

> > what makes you think there is an example?
>
> If there is no example, why is it a reserved symbol?
>
> /Roger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:46 AM
> To: Costello, Roger L.
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: Why is the > symbol a reserved character?
>
> On 09/07/2010 13:42, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> > 5. I am unable to think of an example in which the>  symbol could
> confuse an XML Parser. Would you provide an example please?
> >
>
> what makes you think there is an example?
>
> David
>
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