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		mpweiher on Oct 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XML is almost always misused XML allows arbitrary strings as key names just fine.

progval on Oct 29, 2019 [–]

No, you can't have quotes, spaces, etc., because with GGP's scheme it would be a tag name, and these are invalid in tag names.

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