In cont. of & in element

[John Cowan]

Navreena Gill wrote:

> Thanks a lot for replying to my question regarding & in an element's
> value. I have been trying  to read REC-xml-199.. of W3C to get list of
> such forbidden characters. Looks like & <  ' " %.

% is only an issue within DTDs, not within document instances.

' and " are an issue only in attribute values that are enclosed
in ' and " respectively.

< and & are a problem everywhere.

> I was offered suggestion
> to use CDATA for using & in the value. What is CDATA?

You can suppress the special meaning of all characters within
document content (not attribute values) by enclosing them
in the special quotation marks "<![CDATA[" and "]]>".  Of course,
the appearance of "]]>" within your data will screw even this up.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
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		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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