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Re: CDATA problem

• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• To: John Evdemon <John_Evdemon@f...>
• Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:17:15 -0700

John Evdemon wrote:
> 
> This control character cannot be inserted into a CDATA section because it is
> outside the range of legal values.  According to the ASCII chart, #x1A is SUB.
> Unfortuneatly some of this data is coming from a non-ASCII (e.g. EBCDIC)
> platform.

It can also be a good idea to translate from EBCDIC to Unicode, unless your
real goal is to encapsulate the data as opaque binary blobs.  If the latter
is your goal, BASE64 encoding is a good option.  But if the data is intended
to be processed by a non-EBCDIC platform, recoding would seem best.

- Dave

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