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At 03:18 18/7/02, Michael Kay wrote:
>They aren't allowed in XML because (presumably) they were either not
>allowed in SGML, or they were allowed in SGML and caused no end of
>problems.

Actually, they weren't even much of a problem in SGML; the 
delimiter-in-context rules are so convoluted that a less-than within a 
quoted attribute value specification wasn't too tough, comparatively.  They 
were banned largely on the Desperate Perl Hacker argument; grepping for 
markup is easier if every less-than is actual markup.  Of course, that's 
thrown out the window by CDATA marked sections...

~Chris
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