Why doesn't the XML specification use the word "metacharacters" for less-than, ampersand, greater-than, quote, apostrophe symbols?
Roger L Costello <[email protected]>
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Hi Folks,
The regular expression metacharacters are:
\ ^ $ . [ ] | ( ) * + ? { }
They are called metacharacters because they have special meanings.
XML has five characters with special meanings:
< > & " '
I searched the XML specification for the word "metacharacter". There are zero occurrences.
Why doesn't the XML specification use the word "metacharacter"?
/Roger
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