Donna,
You're absolutely right. The character "'" in Example 1 does indeed require
special encoding. This will be fixed before this document advances to
Proposed Recommendation.
Thanks for the feedback,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Bergmark [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 2:50 PM
> To: Dave Beckett; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Using Dublin Core in XML
>
>
> Gentlemen:
>
> I was reading you document, "Writing Dublin Core in XML"
> revised 2000-07-14
> at http://purl.org/dc/dcouments/wd/dcmes-xml-20000714.htm. I was
> confused by Example 1 and wonder whether it is a typo or whether
> I have seriously misread the rules for content of XML elements.
>
> You explain encoding at the start of 2.5. Then in the next paragraph,
> the first <dc> element encountered contains a "'" ("Dave Beckett's
> Home Page").
>
> Doesn't that apostrophe have to be entified? If not, why not? If
> it is a typo, it really should be fixed because it is confusing to
> XML new-comers like me.
>
> Thanks, Donna Bergmark
>
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