Re: Change proposal for issue 103, was: ISSUE-103 change proposal

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Philip Taylor wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:26:48 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
> > wrote:
> > > Replace the last sentence by:
> > > 
> > > "Note: Due to restrictions of the XML syntax, in XML the U+003C LESS-THAN
> > > SIGN (<) needs be escaped as well."
> > 
> > That seems incomplete. The sequence ]]> comes to mind.
> 
> That's not an issue in attribute values, as far as I'm aware.
> 
> But in attribute values, U+000D and U+000A and U+0009 must be escaped too.
> (Depending on DTD you might also need to escape any leading or trailing U+0020
> and at least one of any adjacent pair of U+0020s, I think.)

This discussion is exactly the reason why including this in the spec is a 
bad idea.

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