On tor, 2011-09-01 at 17:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tor, 2011-09-01 at 14:17 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > That still leaves open why we bother about escaping <.
> > >
> > > The problem is that I often add SGML that has:
> > >
> > > if (1 < 0) ...
> > >
> > > I need something to warn me about those, especially in the release
> > > notes.
> >
> > Why do you need to be warned about that?
>
> If I have:
>
> if (1 < fred)
>
> it will think "fred" is a SGML tag, no?
No, a < followed by a space is not a tag, it's character data. If it
thought it were a tag, it would complain.