Re: 9. Are > characters allowed in attribute values?

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:00 AM, David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com> wrote:

> I agree with Liam.
> NO > in attribute values. period.
>
> Why ? Because I believe that if microXML documents *as is* are not
> parsable by existing XML processors then we have invented a totally new
> language and any attempt to be close-to-xml is pointless besides the
> familiarity aspect and we should just start over.    I believe it would be
> a huge mistake to require microxml processors just to parse microxml.  We
> then have the chicken & egg problem of *having* to make new toolsets just
> to get started.  If MicroXML is parseable (even if not identically in data
> model) then we can start using it right now with XML parsers.
>

I'm really confused by this.  ">" is not forbidden in XML attribute values.
 Are you thinking of "<"?


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