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Re: A10: how to escape markup characters in data?

From: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 01:58:25 -0500
Message-Id: <3.0b26.32.19961009003837.006feb00@austin.sar.slb.com>
To: paul@arbortext.com (Paul Grosso)
Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org 
At 07:39 PM 10/3/96 CDT, Paul Grosso wrote:
>The way that seems easiest and most intuitive to me is to represent
>them as entity references of some kind, e.g.:
>	<p>
>	&lt;ELEMENT foo (a &amp; b)>
>	</p>
>
>At least some tools do this automatically for authors now.

I agree. I can't for the life of me see why this is an issue.

bob


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