RE: [xml] converting & to &

["Jesse Pelton" <jsp PKC com>]

The XML spec (which is highly recommended reading if you're going to use
XML; see http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204) specifies what
characters must be escaped and when in section 2.4.  Ampersand is not
the only such character.  Rather than tell you what else needs escaping,
I refer you to the spec.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-admin gnome org [mailto:xml-admin gnome org] On 
> Behalf Of Peter Jacobi
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:33 AM
> To: michel erard besonet ch
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] converting & to &
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I'm not that clear, whether you are referring to generating 
> or reading XML
> files with libxml. Perhaps you should attach small samples.
>
> > I don't know SAX very well (you'll see ;-)) and have now a 
> problem with the
> > character "&". This getting parsed to "&" in my XML 
> file. Is there a
> > possibility to disable this funcionality? In my application 
> it is important
> > that the parser writes the original sign, because the file 
> is readed by a
> > Cobol-Program which I cannot modify.
>
> If your data contains "&" and the resulting XML file contains
> "&" you do have a problem. It is supposed to be handled in
> this way and you cannot change it without violating the XML REC.
>
> If for heaven's sake you need a file which looks somewhat like
> an XML file but contains naked "&" characters to please the
> COBOL app, you can perform a global search and replace
> /&/&/
>
> Regards,
> Peter Jacobi
>
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