RE: need an "&" in my text!!!Please help!

On Fri, 06 Jul 2001, Wendell Piez wrote:
> Hey, Peter, you're right ... I tried the plain '&' in an SGML parser (which 
> I'm assuming knows the rules better than I do) and it didn't choke! 
> ...Learn something new every day...
> 
> (As long as it wasn't followed by a name start character. When it was, it 
> did. But what's a name start character in SGML? Or maybe we just shouldn't 
> go there.)

The name start characters are those declared in the SGML
Declaration for the DTD you're using. The defaults are
in the SGML Spec.

///Peter

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