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I now develop websites and XML interfaces since 7 years, and never, ever came in a situation, where it was really necessary to use the > for a > . All disambiguition could so far be handled by quoting < , & , " and ' alone. Has anyone ever been in a situation (related to, e.g., SGML processing, browser issues, XSLT, ...) where you found it indespensable to escape the greater-than sign with > ? Update: I just checked with the XML spec , where it says, for example, about character data in section 2.4: Character Data [14] CharData ::= [^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*) So even there, the > isn't mentioned as something special, except from the ending sequence of a CDATA section. This one single case, where the > is of any significance, would be the ending of a CDATA section, ]]> , but then again, if you'd quote it, the quote (i.e., the literal string ]]> ) would land literally in the output (since it's CDATA ).
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