Re: [xml-dev] Best Practice: Use a character or its escaped form?

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 28 February 2013 10:29, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> When should Á be used versus when should its escaped form be used (&xC1;)?
>
> Which is Best Practice, this:
>
>         <Name>Ándre</Name>
>
> or this:
>
>         <Name>&xC1;ndre</Name>
>
> Which do you think is Best Practice?

If someone is going to eyeball the XML then you really should avoid
try and character referencest.... otherwise it doesn't really matter.


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