xml-dev - Re: Markup translations

[pandeng@telepath.com (Steve Schafer)]

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:22:01 -0500, you wrote:

>MS IE5 XMLDOM automatically translates < to &lt; > to &gt; and & to
>&amp; in XML file if they are is in field data.

>Is there a list of all the chars that are translated automatically?
>We want to be able to convert them on the recving end.

 <  -->  &lt;
 >  -->  &gt;
 &  -->  &amp;
 '  -->  &apos;
 "  -->  &quot;

There's also the possibility of numeric character references:

 #1234   -->  &#1234;
 #$a1b2  -->  &#xa1b2;

(using Delphi syntax on the left).

-Steve


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