Hi all,

On 2/22/07, Rice, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I doing this in 2006GB 2651.
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> As luck would have it, the requirement for this test went away.
>
> It appears 2007 handles it correctly but 2006gb does not.
>
> Thanks for the replies

Yes, we did a pile of work in FME 2007 to put to bed once and for all
the dreaded "special characters" issue that used to pop up in a variety
of places.

So FME 2007 is quite nailed down so that & and @ and spaces etc in
constants and attribute names are handled with least surprise.  Things
like string replacers, concatenatores, and greppers for example are now
able to cope with most anything you can throw at them.

For mapping file folks, the same functionality is available -- we've
invented something we call a "Juan" encoding (in honour of our XML
expert here at Safe, as in "What Would Juan Do" to solve such a
problem).  Basically we use notations like <space> to mean a space, etc
etc, thus getting around any potential parsing issues.  See
http://www.fmepedia.com/index.php/WWJD for more details -- we'll be
documenting the encoding rules as part of FME 2007 for those so
interested.

Enjoy!

Dale



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Safe Software has also made slides available that outline enhancements planned 
for FME 2007. The slides are from the "Road Ahead" presentation given on Day 2 
of the FME Worldwide Users Conference. To view these slides, visit 
www.safe.com/2006uc.

 
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