Re: [Vtd-xml-users] 1.6 bug:

[Jimmy Z. <cra...@co...>]

A concern, if VTD-XML is to allow those chars, is that XML developers are 
likely to
shun away from VTD-XML for the fear that it is not enough conformant to the 
spec...
It is something that is worth thinking about...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Swanson" <ma...@Sc...>
To: <vtd...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Vtd-xml-users] 1.6 bug:


> Jimmy Zhang wrote:
>> Is ^L a valid XML character? What is its value in the UCS?
>> Does Xerces have problem with this char??
>
> Yeah, I can see I wasn't clear; I did look up ^L and didn't find
> anything so was hoping you would just know :-)
>
> Ok, I used hexdump and found the value of the offending character: 0x0C
> Form Feed.
> This is not a valid xml character. Valid characters are 0x0a, 0x0d, 0x09
> below 0x20, and 0x20 and up:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets
>
> However, I now have to create a method called removeAsciiControl() that
> removes every byte < 0x20 except for 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x09. Only then can I
> pass this cleaned up data to vtd.
>
> I'd like to avoid this overhead, and it would be ideal if vtd just
> ignored non-valid xml characters. This saves me from creating a buffer
> and cleaning the data manually.
>
> Thank you.
>
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