Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >microsoft.public.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - ampersand [Thread Next] Re: ampersandTo: NULL Date: 10/2/2004 10:22:00 AM "fewgoodpeople" <fewgoodpeople@h...> wrote in message news:c89ad4fb.0410011323.46b7dd5d@p...... > For an XML application, is it safe enough to replace all ampersands in > the incoming data files and XSDs with the escape "&"? Safe enough > not to break anything because "&" actually represent a keyword in one > of the files? There are a couple of things to be careful of - If any ampersands are already escaped then you will end up will &amp; which is probably wrong. If sections are marked as CDATA then you probably don't want to escape Not sure what you mean by keyword, can you show a small sample? -- Joe (MVP - xml) | ||||||
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