Re: Escaping data in XML attributes

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Subject: Re: Escaping data in XML attributes
From: Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:18:45 -0500

On Feb 9, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Martin Honnen wrote:

Is there a way I can still use attributes yet escape these unsavory characters? What's the most efficient way of solving this?
You need to escape the ampersand as &, the double quote as ", the less-than as < and the greater-than as >. Use an API that does the escaping for you, for instance with the .NET framework there is XmlWriter.

Thanks. I'm using Apache Cocoon.

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Escaping data in XML attributes Robert La Ferla - 9 Feb 2008 14:51:13 -0000 Martin Honnen - 9 Feb 2008 15:01:35 -0000 Robert La Ferla - 9 Feb 2008 15:19:05 -0000 <= Anthony B. Coates (XSL-List) - 10 Feb 2008 16:37:27 -0000

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