[OAI-implementers] pointies in abstracts

[Ben Henley]

	A quick question:

	What's the best way to handle "pointies" (greater-than and
less-than) inside record elements? If an abstract happens to contain a
phrase like "we studied the mating behaviour of horses at < 5 degrees
Kelvin", this can obviously stop the XML being well-formed.
	Currently we are encoding *all* character entities (including
ampersand, degrees sign etc.) as HTML entities. Is this right?

	Sorry if this has been discussed already.
	Thanks,
	
	Ben

Ben Henley <mailto:ben@biomedcentral.com>                    
Special Projects Editor
BioMed Central    
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