Hi,

and if you want to preserve the exact data as you put in, you'll have
to change the 'non allowed' characters into entities. (e.g. ) (Or
like previously said, Base64 encode it)

Hope this helps,

Marvin Smit.

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:30:49 +0200, "Julian F. Reschke"
<julian.reschke@n...> wrote:

>dblock wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> 
>> I have a store that I don't control (MAPI) and generate XML in some
>> schema. It encounters special characters (eg. 0x12). My question is:
>> what should I do?
>> 
>> a) Parse every single string and strip special characters?
>
>Yes.
>
>> b) Parse every single string and manually add CDATA whenever I see one
>> of special characters?
>
>That won't help. The set of allowable characters inside CDATA is the same.
>
>> c) Something else?
>
>Depends on your requirements. If you have data that is binary in nature, 
>you may want to base64-encode it. If it's textual data, there's really 
>no compelling reason to have these control characters inside (what is 
>the 0x12 supposed to mean?).
>
>Best regards, Julian