From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T03:18:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: REXML 2.3.5 && 2.2.3

Pierre Baillet wrote:

> I know this is probably naive from me but I thought I was told that
> "<",">" and "&" where the 3 characters that were never to be found in a
> text node in xml in their normal form. they should be replaced by the
> entities "&lt;" "&gt;" and "&amp;". How can this bug be a bug then ?

'>' is a legal character -- it is allowed, unquoted, in XML.  The only ASCII 
characters that are required to be quoted in Text nodes are '<' and '&'.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax
"The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) may appear in 
their literal form only when used as markup delimiters, or within a 
comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section. If they are needed 
elsewhere, they must be escaped using either numeric character references 
or the strings "&amp;" and "&lt;" respectively. The right angle bracket (>) 
may be represented using the string "&gt;", and must, for compatibility, be 
escaped using "&gt;" or a character reference when it appears in the string 
"]]>" in content, when that string is not marking the end of a CDATA 
section."

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