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Re: Why is < illegal in an attribute value but theequivalent h

• From: Pete Cordell <pete++xmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>,"xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:23:36 +0000

On 17/03/2022 11:57, Roger L Costello wrote:

Thanks Pete. That makes sense.

And to be sure that I am crystal clear, when you say:

Internal logic converts "&#x3C;x>blah&#x3C;/x>" to "<x>blah</x>"

The resulting converted value:

     "<x>blah</x>"

does _not_ mean there is an element <x> with value blah. Rather, it means there is a stream of characters '<', 'x', '>', 'b', 'l', 'a', 'h', '<', '/', 'x', '>'  and those characters have no semantics and are not to be interpreted.

Correct?

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  • Re: Why is < illegal in an attribute value but theequivalent hex and decimal character entities are legal?
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>