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Re:XML is almost always misused by sorenjan on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:13PM (#21392094)
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?
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Re:XML is almost always misused by progval on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:22PM (#21392189)
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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