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Navreena Gill wrote: > Thanks a lot for replying to my question regarding & in an element's > value. I have been trying to read REC-xml-199.. of W3C to get list of > such forbidden characters. Looks like & < ' " %. % is only an issue within DTDs, not within document instances. ' and " are an issue only in attribute values that are enclosed in ' and " respectively. < and & are a problem everywhere. > I was offered suggestion > to use CDATA for using & in the value. What is CDATA? You can suppress the special meaning of all characters within document content (not attribute values) by enclosing them in the special quotation marks "<![CDATA[" and "]]>". Of course, the appearance of "]]>" within your data will screw even this up. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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