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Re: [xml-dev] Why doesn't the XML specification use the word "metacharacters" for less-than, ampersand, greater-than, quote, apostrophe symbols?
Metacharacter in my understanding of ‘meta’ would mean a character used to represent a character.
That meaning seems to fit with its use in regex.
It does not fit with XML.
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 12:08, Roger L Costello <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Folks,
The regular expression metacharacters are:
\ ^ $ . [ ] | ( ) * + ? { }
They are called metacharacters because they have special meanings.
XML has five characters with special meanings:
< > & " '
I searched the XML specification for the word "metacharacter". There are zero occurrences.
Why doesn't the XML specification use the word "metacharacter"?
/Roger
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