Special characters in Attributes

[Eve L. Maler]

In attribute values (and in regular content, unless in a CDATA section), & 
and < must *always* be escaped.  Although > has its own magic predefined 
entity for symmetry reasons, it's not required to be escaped.  You don't 
have to escape a single quote if you have used double quotes around the 
attribute value, and vice versa.

         Eve

At 10:39 AM 8/25/99 -0700, Mallikarjuna Sangappa wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have the following in the XML DTD
>
><!ELEMENT PERSON EMPTY>
><!ATTLIST PERSON PERSON_VALUE CDATA #REQUIRED>
>
>In the XML Document,
>
><PERSON PERSON_VALUE="Mike & Nelson"/>
>
>The use of '&' and '<' is giving an error during
>parsing. But > and ' is working. Could anyone throw
>light on this?
>
>TIA,
>
>Malliks
>
>
>
>
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