Ismo Salonen wrote:
> JR wrote:
>> I apologize up front for not being much of an XML guy.  We are trying 
>> to use a canned solution to send barcode strings via XML.  The canned 
>> solution works fine.  The one issue we are having is that the barcodes 
>> are GS1 compliant meaning we have ASCII character 29 (0x1D) embedded 
>> in our barcodes.  We want these strings to contain the character, but 
>> the parser just doesn't like them.
>>
>> Our heading is as follows:
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>> Anyone know of a means of passing such characters in an XML string?
>>
> 
> Could you use [CDATA] for those parts which use special reserved chars ?

A control characterlike 0x1D is not a special reserved character, it is 
not an allowed character. CDATA sections help to make your data more 
readable as you can use
   <foo><![CDATA[a < b && b < c]]></foo>
instead of
   <foo>a &lt; b &amp;&amp; b &lt; c</foo>
but they don't help to put in characters that are not allowed in XML.


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