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Re: MSXML DOM Special Chars Less Than 32

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• Subject: Re: MSXML DOM Special Chars Less Than 32
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:33:26 +1100
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From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
> > We are having trouble encoding special characters less than 
> > 32 (excluding 9, 10, and 13).
> 
> That's because these characters aren't allowed in XML. Writing them as
> character references doesn't change that.
> 
> And yes, you aren't the first person to find that a nuisance.
 
For people interested in why the C1 characters (80-9F) should be disallowed
in XML (i.e. XML 2.0) check out
 "A Rational Approach to XML Robustness Requirements"
  http://www.topologi.com/public/XML_Naming_Rules.html

This is an issue where robustness requirements meets head on
with the inclinations of the people who want to dumb XML down 
into a language for serializing databases. 

Cheers
Rick

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