Re: [Firebird-devel] XML Load/Dump Utility

[Olivier M. <om...@ti...>]

Jim Starkey wrote:

> What are your thoughs about the relative merits of
> 
>     <column name='"HERRING" value="RED"/>
> 
> and
> 
>     <column name='"HERRING">RED</column>

Both are incorrect. The opening single quote is a typo, I suppose. ;-)

On an XML point of view, the second one is more logical.
The 'column' element is meant to represent a column value, it has an 
attribute (its name) which qualifies it, and the 'value' comes naturally 
in the element text body. It imposes some more escapes ('<' for 
instance), that's all.

Oh btw, '&' has to be escaped, both in an attribute value and in the 
element text. '&amp;' is common for such escape.

-- 
Olivier Mascia