Re: p:escape-markup ... & changed to ∓ ... why isn't " changed to "?

"Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org> writes:

> Why aren't the quotes escaped? Why don't I get this:
>
>    &lt;Book id=&quot;McCartney&quot;&gt;

Because they don't have to be. As I said, in the last message,
there's a lot of leeway. This would be equally correct:

     &lt;&#66;&#x6f;&#x157;k id=&quot;McCartney&quot;&gt;

But somewhat...surprising.

The only characters you *have* to escape are "<" and "&" because
they're "markup start characters". Or that's what we used to call them
in the SGML days, anyway.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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