Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/07/2007 09:55:10 PM: > pmkwan wrote: > > Thanks for the prompt reply. Since I'm using java, and my > database is MySQL, > > do you know what I should use to output this character (Unicode: 0x1e) > > correctly within the CDATA section? > > > > If there's no easy solution, does that mean I have to filter out these funky > > characters before outputting them in the CDATA section? > > The unicode character 0x1e is forbidden outright from appearing in an > XML document. There is no way to represent it within XML.
True for XML 1.0 but not for XML 1.1 [1] (though you must use a character reference to include it). > (Personally, this seems like a rather unnecessary limitation to me, but > that's how part of how XML is defined.) > > If transport of arbitrary data is your goal, perhaps something other > than XML would fit your design criteria better. > > Max. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#charsets Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
