- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 100 23:22:11 -0400 (EDT)
- To: pandeng@telepath.com
- Cc: xml-editor@w3.org, xml-dev@xml.org
Steve Schafer scripsit: > Speaking of which, I don't know if there is an existing erratum or > not, but I find the language of section 2.4 to be ambiguous and > confusing. In particular, these two sentences seem to be in direct > contradiction: > > "The right angle bracket (>) may be represented using the string > '>', and must, for compatibility, be escaped using '>' or a > character reference when it appears in the string ']]>' in content..." > > "In the content of elements, character data is any string of > characters which does not contain the start-delimiter of any markup." No real conflict, I think. It's true that a CDATA section is always in the content of some element, but the second sentence refers to the *immediate* character-data content of elements. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions
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