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RE: Converting &, >, <, ", and other odd-ball characte

Subject: RE: Converting &, >, <, ", and other odd-ball characters...
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:27:01 -0000
RE:  Converting &
> but I
> wish there was
> a way to tell the XML parser "if you see & replace it with
> &amp;, if you
> see...". I take it there is no way at the top of an XML page
> to tell the XML parser to convert these characters?

Of course not. The reason they have to be escaped is so that the parser can
recognize "<" as the start of a tag, and "&" as the start of an entity
reference.

Mike Kay


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