On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:30:34AM +0200, Ben de Groot wrote: > The xml header in each metadata.xml states that the content is UTF-8 > encoded, and any XML parser has to be able to handle this. Also, when > used literally in xml, the 5 special characters & ' " < > cause a > well-formedness error, as far as I know. U+2019 is the recommended form > of using the apostrophe. So in my opinion, if we want to use xml, we > should use unicode properly. "xmllint --valid" is my check for well-formedness, and it says the single quotes are fine.
According to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#dt-chardata the chars "&" and "<", ">" have "MUST" as their requirements for being escaped. Double and single quotes "MAY" be escaped. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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