[XML-SIG] A small SGML question

[Paul Prescod]

In general, Netscape and MSIE never give correct behaviours.

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
... 
> NS, MSIE, and the current version of sgmllib all treat ">" as end of tag,
> even if it's quoted.  The specs I've been looking at seem to hint that is
> not the correct behaviour.  Who's right?

As in Python, string literals must have both a start and end quote
character or else they "run-on" to the end of the document. The free way
to check these things is to use nsgmls from http://www.jclark.com/sp

<!DOCTYPE meta [
<!ELEMENT META EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST META NAME CDATA #IMPLIED
	       CONTENT CDATA #IMPLIED>
]>
<meta name=description content="whoops, I forgot the closing quote>

nsgmls:test.sgm:7:1:E: an entity end in a literal must terminate an
entity referenced in the same literal

In this particular case, a decent HTML validator might also help to give
you the right answer. Some are based on nsgmls.

http://www.probiz.net/faq/validators.html

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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