Re: [xml-dev] Default Entity when compose xml file

Martin,

I followed your advice. It works well. :-)

It seems this is a general problem when compose xml
file. Is there any exist function  - for example like
encode - to do this in XML lib? I made this replace
function my own currently. 

Cheers,

Long

--- Martin Probst <> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > One solution I am thinking about is:
> > Replace <,>,& and other characters that can not
> used
> > directly in xml data with &lt;, &gt;,&amp; and etc
> in
> > the data before I compose the xml file.
> > 
> > An other problem is risen here. Are these entities
> > been defined as default entity in the parser
> (Xerces)?
> > I.e.: can I do not define these entities in the
> xml
> > file?
> 
> The entities for the XML meta-characters (&amp; &gt;
> &lt; &quot; &apos;)
> are part of the XML standard itself and always
> available in XML
> documents/parsers. So no need to worry, you can just
> replace occurrences
> of the characters with the appropriate entity.
> 
> Make sure you replace the '&' character first, as
> you will run into ugly
> double escaping problems otherwise. You also only
> need to escape & and <
> in element content, the others are optional.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
>
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