RE: [xml-dev] unprintable characters in the XML

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

If by "unprintable" you mean any control characters except TAB, CR and
NEWLINE:

you can't do this (no matter whether in text nodes or in attribute nodes):
they are not allowed in XML.

You'll have to switch to a different representation like

- hex
- base64
- special element/PI nodes
- ...

Julian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Khodorkovsky [mailto:dkhodor@home.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:39 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] unprintable characters in the XML
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to this list and the question might have been on for long time
> already, but I got the problem of a need to have a number of unprintable
> characters in the XML file in values of either Text node,
> attribute or CDATA
> section.
>
> I was quite fine with msxml.dll that allowed it, but new versions are
> blocking that "feature".
> let say I can encode Text data containing those chars... but what about
> attributes? (let say we can't move them to be nodes).
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry
>
>
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