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Re: Issue 5.1) SSH End of message directive

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:37:09 -0500, Ed Roskos <ed.roskos@utstar.com> said:

>> Consider a user with the ability to change
>> just one string somewhere (say his name for his account).  If he
>> changes his name to John <?EOM?> Doe, what will parsers do?

Ed> That was a scarey throught at first =) But I guess that the
Ed> parsers and renders need to translate '<' to &lt; and '>' to &gt;,
Ed> else you have problems no matter what.  The text content needs to
Ed> translate the (I think) 5 standard entities on rendering, and
Ed> parsers auto-convert them when parsing.

Yeah, but isn't that not true in CDATA related sections which is
bounded by a different special delimiter?

I'm not an XML expert, so forgive me if I'm wrong. 

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