Re: < vs. >

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Owen Taylor (otaylor redhat com) wrote at 22:16 on 09/09/00:
> 
> Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu> writes:
> 
> > It appears that in some docs (GDP Handbook) instead of '<' you have &lt; -
> > This is correct of course - but it appears that you use '>' instead of &gt;
> > 
> > I think all docs should convert the '>' symbol to the &gt; entity (of course
> > this only applies to the parts /in between/ the tags - not the tags
> > themselves).
> 
> I think it is more elegant to use &gt;, but it is not required
> for XML or SGML except in in the sequence ']]>' (See the XML spec,
> section 2.4)

Thanks for pointing this out :) 

For consistencies sake we should all use &gt; in docs instead of '>' unless
somebody has soem compelling reason not to (this should be done during the
revision of docs for GNOME 1.4)

Regards,
Ali