Re: Obscure Ignore production

Arjun Ray (aray@q2.net)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:48:17 -0400 (EDT)

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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> Could someone explain what Ignore [65] in the XML 1.0 spec is?

Any string that that doesn't have marked section delimiters ('<![' or
']]>') in it.

> It seems to duplicate content from [64] to no apparent purpose.

The point is that there can be marked sections nested inside an IGNORE MS.
So, a straight scan for an ending ']]>' isn't enoguh.

Arjun

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