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RE: creating links to resource files listed in XML file
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:05:26 -0700
- Subject: RE: [xsl] creating links to resource files listed in XML file
- References: <03F3A585B9FE034EB571F04E4C792E220545C09C@2k_exch.analysys.com>
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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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