Re: System Literal

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:06:20 -0400


Portillo, Christina wrote:
Christina Portillo scripsit:

> Does SystemLiteral read that any characters values, [02]Char or
> [84]Letter, can be placed between the quotes single or double less the
> ranges [^"] or [^'] ?

A SystemLiteral beginning with " can contain any character except
" (that is what [^"] means). A SystemLiteral beginning with '
can, correspondingly, contain any character except '.

URIs allow [-$_.+!*'(),;/?:@&=] plus [A-Za-z0-9] in them, but not ", so
the safest approach for XML Systemids is always to use " delimitation.

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