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On 17/07/11 11:21, Olivier Jeulin wrote: > Le 17/07/2011 00:18, Richard Salz a �crit : >> Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote on 07/16/2011 03:32:16 PM: >> > or it could allow "&" to represent itself if not followed >> > by a name character. >> >> Then whitespace becomes significant >> foo<bar >> foo < bar >> foo< bar >> foo <bar > > It is already. To define a start tag, "<" can't be followed by a space " > ", so > foo < bar > foo< bar > could (and I think should) be valid XML But this *is* valid SGML. <!doctype text [ <!element text - - (#pcdata)> ]> <text> foo < bar foo< bar </text> This was one of the complexities of SGML that was removed to make XML, in order to *make it easier to write parser/validators*. There were lots more, and I'm sure no-one involved at that stage would claim that everything was got right. Don't forget that XML was designed for *text documents*; any other use was either an afterthought or simply Not Yet Invented. ///Peter
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