The textual contents of an element is controlled by the CharData
symbol ( http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-CharData ):
[14] CharData ::= [^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*)
Only '<', and '&' are disallowed (as they indicate the start of other
XML symbols) , so quotes, double-quotes and greater than ('>') symbols
do not require any encoding.
Similarly for AttValue ( http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-AttValue ):
[10] AttValue ::= '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"'
| "'" ([^<&'] | Reference)* "'"
Only '<', '&' and the particular quoting character used to surround
the attribute value are disallowed; the other quote character and
greater than ('>') do not require any encoding.
Of course these characters could be encoded (just as any character
could be specified with a numeric character reference) - there just
isn't a need to, and it increases the document size and processing
required.
-DW
On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:09 AM, sendy wrote:
Hi everybody,
It seems that special characters < and & are entitized as < and
&
respectively, but not >.
Is there any reason to that? According to xml specs, or at least to my
understanding of it :-) , shouldn't > be entitized even when in
attribute
value?
Thanks,
Sendy
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