• From: Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@n...>
• To: Don Park <donpark@d...>
• Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:31:13 -0800 (PST)

On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Don Park wrote:
> What is the reason for special treatment of ']]>' in
> character data?

See the third paragraph of Section 2.4 of the Recommendation.  It's there
for compatibility, i.e. so an SGML processor can parse an XML document.



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