Re: < vs. >

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Ali Abdin wrote:

> * 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)

Is there some reason that we should not use '>'?  It is easier to use,
valid XML, and already used in the documents.  Thus, if we don't have a
*very* compelling reason to go through our many documents and change all
of the occurances of '>', I'd rather not.

Dan