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On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:30:34AM +0200, 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. U+2019 is the recommended form |
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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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"xmllint --valid" is my check for well-formedness, and it says the |
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single quotes are fine. |
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According to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#dt-chardata the chars "&" and |
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"<", ">" have "MUST" as their requirements for being escaped. Double and |
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single quotes "MAY" be escaped. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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