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> Example: Word uses Windows-1252 encoding. word will presumably use whatever encoding its set to use on that system. 1252 presumably isn't the default everywhere. > Consequently, if the text was created > in an editor that uses a different encoding than the XML document then > the characters that result from pasting the text into the XML document > may not be the same. That's one thing that can happen, but perhaps more likely is that the resulting string is not a valid utf8 sequence and so the resulting document can not be parsed at all and will be rejected (with a "fatal error") > In UTF-8 the hex value x93 corresponds to a control character. No, unless the following bytes also have the top bit set, and this is the start of a mult-byte encoding of a character, this would be a fatal error. > Can you think of other problems that may result from copying text from > one document and pasting it into an XML document? The text might contain the string ]]> (although arguably you have covered this by including > in the list of characters that "may need to be escaped") The text might contain non-xml characters that (in XML 1.0) can not even be entered as numeric references (C0 controls, FFFE, FFFF or the values corresponding to half a surrogate pair) David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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