From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T07:58:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: REXML 2.3.5 && 2.2.3

Tobias Reif wrote:

>> ">" is OK, though some (me) find it easier to read if all such markup is
>> escaped (rather than just the "<").
> 
> "The right angle bracket (>) may be represented using the string "&gt;",
> and must, for compatibility, be escaped using "&gt;""

You quoted this out of context, Tobi.  The spec states that the right angle 
bracket must be escaped if it appears in a CDATA section as part of "]]>", 
not if it appears elsewhere in the document.  Therefore:

        <a>text>text</a>

is valid.  Specifically, the section you quoted in its entirety says:

"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."

That part about the CDATA section is rather important :-)

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