• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:18:56 -0700
• Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> Interesting idea and a neat hack. If I'm reading this write, though, it 
> would require writing < in XML as &< and so forth for other 
> genuine entity and character references.

Nope, &&; in the UTF-8+names encoding represents a single & character. 
< represents nothing but <, since it's not defined to represent 
anything else by UTF-8+names.  ü represents the single 
u-with-umlaut character, because that's inherited from HTML. -Tim

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