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

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 18:19 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> Most of the work that canonicalizers do is about (shudder!) namespaces.
> The average XML document when canonicalized will *not* be a MicroXML
> document, so I think we can let that connection go.

I thought that the point Jams was making (although I should let him
speak for himself) was that a canonicalized µXML document should still
be a µXML document.

Forbidding > in attribute values would potentially break that.

Liam

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