In fact, the XML grammar is such that a parser *can't* get confused about
how to interpret the '>' character. > is provided only for stylistic
reasons, because folks thought "<foo>" would express the intent more
clearly to a human reader than "<foo>" would. Unless you plan to
hand-edit your XML documents there really is no reason to escape that
character -- and good reason not to, since doing so adversely impacts
parsing and serialization speed, as well as file size.
>I believe the motivation for always escaping '>', had to with to do with
>']]>' which is the end delimiter for a CDATA section.
Nope. It's true that ']]>' can't appear within a <[CDATA[]]>, but escaping
doesn't solve that (and in fact > would be "escaped" by the <[CDATA[]]>
and treated as the equivalent of &gt;).
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
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