Re: [xml-dev] genx - consensus items

["Karl Waclawek" <karl@waclawek.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>


> On Jan 21, 2004, at 8:47 PM, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> 
> >> Requests for enhancement that I am just *not* going to do unless we 
> >> get some really new information:
> >> 2. Optional escaping of illegal characters
> >
> > Do you mean that illegal characters will NEVER be escaped or that they 
> > will ALWAYS be escaped?
> 
> If there are illegal characters that's an error. -Tim

If my input contains things like '<' it would be convenient
if the XML writer would escape this to '&lt;' for me
instead of throwing an error. Would save me some work.

Or what do you mean with illegal character?

Karl