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Stuart, Thanks. I'll dig into the beautiful XML. --Zoe > Zoe, this is not "very strange". You should understand that this is > required by XML. That's why I referred you to the XML 1.0 specification. > > It might help to see that XML does two main things: it defines a data > model and a serialization specification. The data model that XML defines > is a hierarchical tree of data. XML serialization specifies how data in > that data model can be written out to a file or byte stream. Using the < > symbol to start XML markup tags and the & symbol to escape special > characters are artifacts of XML serialization. When we write "& lt ;" or > "& amp ;" (without the spaces) we are telling the XML parser that these > characters are not part of the XML markup, but literal characters. > Similarly, when we use a CDATA section it tells the XML parser to not > try to interpret anything between <![CDATA[ and ]]> as XML. And XSLT > deals in the world of XML: XSLT is expressed in terms of XML, XSLT > transforms XML source data, and often XSLT produces XML results (or HTML > or text). Hope that makes it seem less strange. > > The book "Essential XML" by Don Box, Aaron Skonnard and John Lam, > Addison-Wesley, 2001, is a good place to become acquainted with the > wonderful (and sometimes quirky) world of XML. > > Cheers, > Stuart XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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