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Subject: RE: [xsl] need an "&" in my text!!!Please help!
From: Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 13:13:48 +0100
On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Wendell wrote:

> just fine. It is, after all, correct HTML and the way it *should* be done. 
> A plain '&' may display in some browsers, but it's illegal HTML (since in 
> HTML, as in XML, the & is the open markup delimiter for entity references).

No, an isolated & is perfectly valid HTML because it's SGML.
It's incorrect in XHTML, which is what XSLT processors 
generate -- but an HTML browser is unaware of this.

///Peter

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