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		sorenjan on Oct 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XML is almost always misused But the starting point in the example was `<item name="name" value="John" /> <item name="city" value="London" />` where the key names are used as attributes, so it wouldn't work with arbitrary key names either, right?

progval on Oct 29, 2019 [–]

It would work (kind of); most XML parsers/generators would take care of escaping and unescaping quotes; but there's no way in the XML spec to escape characters in tag names.

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