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

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

Leyne, Sean wrote:

>>>Oh btw, '&' has to be escaped, both in an attribute value and in the
>>>element text. '&' is common for such escape.
>>
>>And quotes, too, sir.
> 
> And that's only the start!
> 
> There are a large number of characters that need to be 'escaped' -- I
> won't list them here.

Absolutely not Sean. ;-)

All text that is not markup constitutes the character data of the 
document. And:

	CharData ::= [^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*)

See this paragraph, it resumes it all quite clearly:

	http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#syntax

-- 
Olivier Mascia