On Apr 10, 2005, at 2:30 AM, James Aylett wrote:
OTOH since someone has asked the question who presumably is fairly knowledgable about XML, and most people people are not, would it be worth putting a brief comment pointing to the appropriate section of the XML TR?
"Note that in XML the right angle bracket (>) need not be entity escaped in many common situations. See <REF>."
I think this is really extraneous to our spec. I tend to agree with Martin that > is more legible than >, but many software packages will always output > because of the small but nonzero possibility of something like this happening:
if (a[b[i]]>0) { c++; } // yer not well-formed
-Tim