and my understanding is that
certain kinds of character data cannot be stored in
attribute values,
since they are CDATA not PCDATA. Am I mistaken about this?)
Yes you are mistaken. All character data that is allowed in element
content is allowed in attributes
OK, thanks... I don't know where I picked up this misapprehension
but I'm glad to be freed from it. Still, I wonder why I thought that
and whether there is something true and significant that I'm missing.
(although newlines are normalised
differently: to #10 in element content and #20 (usually) in
attributes.
Umm... I just looked this up in the XML 1.0 spec (3.3.3 Attribute-Value
Normalization) and I don't understand how it is reconciled with what you said...
"1. All line breaks must have been normalized on input to #xA as described in
2.11 End-of-Line
Handling [which refers to element values], so the rest of this algorithm
operates on text
normalized in this way."
Not that it matters much to me.
What doesn't happen is that the string is _Parsed_ looking for element
start tags, etc. Of course you have to quote " if using " to surround
teh value, but that is the only difference.
Thanks,
Lars
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