Hmmm. Yes, I'd forgotten that clause. You're right, if it says "must" it
isn't optional.
Tim Bray's comment in the Annotated XML spec (http://www
.xml.com/axml/axml.html) is "If you need to put a greater-than sign in an
XML document, that's OK, unless the previous two characters happened to be
]]. What this means is that if you're generating XML in a computer program,
you might as well always use >, just to be sure."
(In his discussion of "for compatability", Tim admitted that some ...
interesting .. compromises were made in order to ensure compatability with
SGML. leading to decisions they would not otherwise have made. This strikes
me as being one of those.)
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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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