Liam, hello,
> Another is to use an escaping mechanism -
> what I call "UCODE", in which an upper-case
> "U" is followed by hexadecimal and a trailing
> X to mark the end
To be sure I understand, this text (2 denotes hex two, 3 denotes hex three):
2Hello World3
is converted to this XML:
<text>U2XHello WorldU3X</text>
Is that the approach Liam?
Have you documented this approach anywhere?
/Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 11:19 AM
To: Costello, Roger L.
Cc:
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Storing illegal XML 1.0 characters in the Unicode Private Use Area
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 18:04 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
[...]
> One approach is to move any illegal characters into the Private Use Area:
Another is to use an escaping mechanism - e.g. what I call "UCODE", in
which an upper-case "U" is followed by hexadecimal and a trailing X to
mark the end; this can safely be used in XML element names for example.
Liam
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