Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names

From: Tim Bray <>
To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <>
Date: 2003-10-18T21:18:56Z
ID: <>
Thread: Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> Interesting idea and a neat hack. If I'm reading this write, though, it 
> would require writing &lt; in XML as &&lt; and so forth for other 
> genuine entity and character references.

Nope, &&; in the UTF-8+names encoding represents a single & character. 
&lt; represents nothing but &lt;, since it's not defined to represent 
anything else by UTF-8+names.  &uuml; represents the single 
u-with-umlaut character, because that's inherited from HTML. -Tim

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