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From: jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Short reference delimiters with blank sequences
Message-ID: <JJC.91May15122300@jclark.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 91 11:23:00 GMT
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The standard says [363:12]:

   A string that could be recognized as more than one delimiter will be
   considered the string of the most specific delimiter that it
   satisfies.

Suppose I have short reference delimiters "B&#RE;&#SPACE;" and
"&#SPACE;&#RE;B" (these meet the requirements of [467:17], though they
are deprecated according to [467:21]), which would the string
"&#SPACE;&#RE;&#SPACE;" be considered as?

James Clark
jjc@jclark.uucp