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Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> The xml header in each metadata.xml states that the content is UTF-8 |
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> encoded, and any XML parser has to be able to handle this. Also, when |
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> used literally in xml, the 5 special characters & ' " < > cause a |
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> well-formedness error, as far as I know. |
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You're wrong, it's absolutely safe to use ' and " in element contents. |
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You might have to escape them when in attribute value, though -- example: |
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<foo bar="baz " test"/> |
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That's because the XML parser would have no way of telling if the " is |
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supposed to terminate the attribute value or not. |
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> of using the apostrophe. So in my opinion, if we want to use xml, we |
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> should use unicode properly. |
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In my opinion, there's absolutely no benefit in using fancy characters |
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everywhere, just because it's allowed by the XML spec. |
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Cheers, |
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-jkt |
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