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&apos isn't and HTML entity and should be encoded as'
Most browsers does recognize and render&apos but you may experience
problems in javascript
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Vern Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think this discussion has made a little sense out of something in one
of our products - I had to HTML-encode things like apostrophes -&apos
did not always work - had to use&27, as I recall.
Now I just saw a site that differentiated HTML-encoding vs XML-encoding
- the former has only 4 reserved characters, the latter has 5. The 5th
one is&apos - not part of HTML, therefore, not consistently rendered, IME.
Nice!!
On 6/5/2012 4:05 AM, Larry Ducie wrote:
Hi David,doesn't mean it wont though. You are at the mercy of the implementation and
Firstly, the parser should not parse the content of a CDATA block. That
they are not all standard. Anybody who has had to talk to many SOAP servers
learns this lesson quickly.
See http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp for some detailsconfirming your belief.
Secondly, when escaping entities yourself there are a few characters towatch out for - not just the ampersand (&):
Certain characters are reserved because they form the structure of themarkup language. they are<>'".
To escape them they are replaced by representations:character is now also reserved! So we have to escape it too:
< goes to<
goes to>' goes to'
" goes to"
Because the escaped representations begin with an ampersand (&) that
& goes to&last because escaping all the others introduces new ampersands into the
If you want to escape the characters yourself NEVER escape the ampersand
markup and you want to leave those ones alone.
Finally, why work this out yourself? Use an open source tool to do this.Henrik has built a good one, and you can download mine at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmli/files/ They're free and much used.
--
Cheers
Larry Ducie
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