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Re: Default Entity when compose xml file

• To: longjingjun@y...
• Subject: Re: Default Entity when compose xml file
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:28:32 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20051028100827.28168.qmail@w...> (messagefrom jj long on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:08:27 -0700 (PDT))
• References: <20051028100827.28168.qmail@w...>

>> Make sure you replace the '&' character first, as
>> you will run into ugly
>> double escaping problems otherwise. You also only
>> need to escape & and <
>> in element content, the others are optional.


Note that you probably also want to escape > to &gt;
although you don't need to do them all, if you don't escape all > then
you have to check for occurrences of ]]> and escape at least one of
those three characters, as the string ]]> is not allowed (except as the
end of a CDATA section).

David

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