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Nothing personal, but this is rather strange XML. Why not use a
part_description element:
<product_item>
<part_description>3 1/2" Spanner</part_description>
...
</product_item>
or attribute:
<product_item part_description="3 1/2" Spanner">
...
</product_item>
Note that the latter case uses the pre-defined quot entity to avoid
having the inches mark be interpreted as the end of the attribute. XML
defines an apos (apostrophe) entity as well.
-- Ron
david.lyon@computergrid.net wrote:
> Hi Collin,
>
> If you are talking about the traditional xml spec I may
> not be the best person to explain it.
>
> However what we do with our string literals is "properly"
> escape them. That is, have a scheme to embed double quotations
> and other noxious characters in a way that doesn't cause a
> problem to the parser.
>
> It happens all the time, especially with power tools. eg:
>
> <product_item>
> part_description&="3 1/2^" Spanner"
> </product_item>
>
> What we do, is use the ^ character to escape. But there
> may be other preferences.
>
> So after reading out the value, what is returned is:
>
> 3 1/2" Spanner
>
> It's pretty simple but works without hiccups.
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