> Thanks David. The reason is a long and very boring story related to
> historic (non xml aware) software. But thanks for your suggestion, I
> am looking to change the requirement along these lines.
If you cannot do that, then pick a legal namechar that is not common in
your use and use that as an escape character. For example, if you pick R,
then
RR means a single R
Rnnnn means the four hex digits nnnn contain the utf-8 codepoint.
Leading zero's are required
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STSM, Senior Security Architect
SOA Appliances
Application Integration Middleware
