[JDEV] Quotes in XML

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Michal Leinweber wrote:

>>The XML Spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) yields the following under
>>2.3 Common Syntactic Constructs (specifically, the "literals" subsection):
>>
>>AttValue    ::=    '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"' |  "'" ([^<&'] |
>>Reference)* "'"
>>
>>Notice that " and ' are both acceptable.
>>
> 
> Sorry but there is nothing like your notice in that document ......!


Um, go to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-common-syn and take a look at 
item [10].

See also item D.2.1 in the XML FAQ at http://www.ucc.ie/xml/ which states:

"all attribute values must be in quotes (the single-quote character [the 
apostrophe] may be used if the value contains a double-quote character, 
and vice versa)"

In addition, the answer to Question 12 in the Perl XML FAQ at 
http://www.perlxml.com/faq/perl-xml-faq.html states:

"NOTE: You can use single or double quotes for attribute values in the 
XML declaration."

(This is true more generally, and does not apply only to the XML 
declaration.)

Peter