- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 09:29:28 -0600
- To: public-microxml@w3.org
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:57 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > Uche Ogbuji scripsit: > > > I wonder about the arguments for banishing ">". If we do not support > > CDATA Sections there is nowhere ">" is unsafe, right? > > No, the sequence "]]>" appearing in character content makes the document > not well-formed. So rather than putting that wart into MicroXML, James > banned ">" from character content altogether, and the initial basis > simply bans it everywhere. > OK. Well that seems to bolster the symmetry argument enough that I'd go for just banning ">" in both element content and attribute values. Then again, this is a weak preference, and I'd be OK if they were allowed in attribute values only. -- Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com http://wearekin.org http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ http://copia.ogbuji.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji http://twitter.com/uogbuji
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