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eric.baatz@east.sun.com
"Eric Baatz - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS" writes:
> I've been looking over the 14-Nov-96 XML working draft and
>
> 1. I don't understand why XML's QuotedCData seems to allow
> constructs that look like references but aren't. (I am
> assuming that such constructs would make life difficult
> for parsers.) For example:
>
> "&fooref;"
>
> seems to be legal by applying the [^"<] part of the following
> eight times.
>
> QuotedCData := '"' ([^"<] | Reference)* '"' ...
>
> Is the XML draft not stating some restriction, such as "if it
> looks like a reference, it must be a reference"?
>
> 2. Is there a better place (perhaps more specific to XML) for me
> to post XML queries such as #1?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help.
>
>
> Eric Baatz
> Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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