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From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: NULL
Date: 1/10/2006 1:10:00 PM

In article <43c38e64$0$6657$8fcfb975@n...>,
Armel Asselin <armelasselin@h...> wrote:

>Well-formedness constraint: No < in Attribute Values
>The replacement text of any entity referred to directly or indirectly in an 
>attribute value MUST NOT contain a <.
>
>it's seems to imply that:
><tag attr="&lt;" />
>is not good XML. but for example the doc of XSL shows numerous samples where 
>&lt; is used in attributes. is the XSL doc wrong? or is this well-formedness 
>rule obsolete? or not enforced by anybody? or is this something else?

You have misunderstood the rule.  It means that
  <tag attr="<" />
is illegal.

The replacement text of the entity reference in
  <tag attr="&lt;" />
is
  &#60;
(or something similar) which does not contain a < character.

-- Richard

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