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: On one level that'd be good, but on another it's not so good. (XML docs aren't supposed to contain magic flag values in text nodes; that's what using a different elements is for...) —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 09:00, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
:: Why not simply have a name in the list which includes something with a named entity, like the German "Jürgen" ("Jürgen") or the french "André" ("André")? --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 09:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
::: Because those don't ''need'' to be encoded; the data stream might be UTF-8 (which is actually the default for XML...) For the quoting to work, we'd need to force the inclusion of each of <code><>'"&</code> (those are the only ones that XML requires handling, and even the quoting characters only need doing in some circumstances; it's really messy) and those characters don't look like first names. (The set of things you're supposed to quote is larger in HTML.) —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 10:47, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
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