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> On 09/07/2010 13:57, Michael Kay wrote: >> n attribute values, > is reserved, which is pretty pointless, and this >> is entirely due to SGML legacy, which allows the quotes around the >> attribute value to be omitted. > > You mean < here rather than > (which can be used in attribute values) Yes, sorry, got that wrong. When XSLT serializes, it MUST escape "<" when generating XML, and it MUST NOT do so when generating HTML. Wish I could remember why. Michael Kay Saxonica
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