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Re: Check the value of a element

Subject: Re: Check the value of a element
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:44:10 +0100 (BST)
> It is a little unfortunate that one has to use &lt; in the comparison on
> line 3 (otherwise xt displays a "character not allowed" message). On the
> other hand, the > operator (gt) by itself seems to be accepted all right
> as a literal, without needing the &gt; entity reference. 

This is just a standard feature of XML: you can use > but not < in
character data.

If you don't like writing . &lt; 10 you can write 10 >= . which means
the same thing, or you can write . < 10 into an XML (rather than ascii)
editor, which will know that it needs to quote the < character.

David


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