Re: [xml-dev] Element content

From
Tim Bray <>
To
David LeBlanc <>
Date
2003-01-20T08:42:26Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Element content
David LeBlanc wrote:
> A question has arisen about element content. I'm reasonably sure I've read
> that it's illegal for an element to contain itself either directly or
> indirectly. Is this correct, and if so, can someone point me to the relevant
> section of the XML Recommendation please?

Perfectly legal, happens all the time.  Now *entities* can't contain 
themselves, but that's a different kettle of markup -Tim