Re: [xsl] built in entity

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv at dyomedea dot com>]

Hi,

cutlass wrote:

> after checking with saxon, msxml and sablotron .65
> 
> why in a <xsl:if test=""/> does the greater than value '>' not throw an
> error but '<' throws one ?
> obviously the use of &gt; and &lt; works, no entity comments please...,


Just because it is not *mandatory* to escape ">" in a XML document but 
just a convenience to provide some consistency with "<"...

And since ">" is simpler to read than "&gt;" I use to inverse the tests 
in my XSLT transformation to avoid using "<"...

Hope this helps.

Eric


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