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From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source
Entity and character references MAY both be used to escape the left angle bracket, ampersand, and other delimiters. A set of general entities (amp, lt, gt, apos, quot) is specified for this purpose. Numeric character references MAY also be used; they are expanded immediately when recognized and MUST be treated as character data, so the numeric character references < and &MAY be used to escape < and & when they occur in character data.
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From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (2000-10-06) | Glossary for this source
Entity and character references can both be used to escape the left angle bracket, ampersand, and other delimiters. A set of general entities (amp, lt, gt, apos, quot) is specified for this purpose. Numeric character references may also be used; they are expanded immediately when recognized and must be treated as character data, so the numeric character references < and & may be used to escape < and & when they occur in character data.
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