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Post #129,078
by boxley
12/5/03 9:47:17 AM
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New an XML question regarding reserved words
Spending a lot of my day decoding xml messages to find out why things didnt work as the customer expected. Since XML is container based messaging, are the contents of the container restricted in anyway? For example would the data required be a business name and an "@" be part of the business name, ex:foo@bar restaurant
would the "@" have to be escaped per local OS rules or does the XML just pass it on as is?
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Bill
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Post #129,081
by ChrisR
12/5/03 10:24:32 AM
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New @ not escaped
The only escaping that needs to take place are the ones that have to do with being able to discern between xml tags and data that contains stuff that looks like xml tags (centering mostly over the < character).

As far as restrictions on the format of the content, that depends on the DTD and or Schema files used to define the document format. DTDs have very limited capability to restrict the data, while Schema comes at the cost of some complexity.
     an XML question regarding reserved words - (boxley) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2003, 09:47:17 AM EST
         @ not escaped - (ChrisR) - Dec. 5, 2003, 10:24:32 AM EST

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