From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-06-12T05:20:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: ANN: REXML 2.3.5 && 2.2.3

Tobias Reif wrote:

> It must be escaped everywhere if it's part of that sequence but not part
> of the ending delimiter of a CData section.
> 
> And where does the spec say
> 
>  
>> not if it appears elsewhere in the document.

The structure of the 'rule' sentance dictates that they are speaking 
strictly of CData sections.

This is an important point, because the even non-validating parsers must 
raise parsing errors -- if you were right, then REXML should raise an 
exception if it encounters an unquoted '>' in a text node.  However, as an 
illustration of why unquoted '>' may validly exist in XML documents, 
consider the Oasis test 'xmlconf/xmltest/valid/sa/103.xml':

        <!DOCTYPE doc [
        <!ELEMENT doc (#PCDATA)>
        ]>
        <doc>&#60;doc></doc>

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