Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > The other benefit of using the basic SWORD API when processing XML is > that we might find bugs when using it for processing the input (which, I > believe DM might have found with his 3 tag example, though I always > thought > had to be escaped to > Can someone check the W3C spec?)
Only & and < always have to be encoded with entities. ' and " only have to be encoded with entities inside of attribute values demarcated with the same type of quotation mark. > never has to be encoded with an entity. The only reason it is one of the 5 universal XML entities is for parallelism with <. Since > cannot occur in either element or attribute names, there's no circumstance in which it could be misinterpreted as the end of an element. --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
