On Jul 6, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > I am looking at filtering special characters out of strings to make XML > export/reimport safer when the BIOS contains ugly DMI infos or when the > user sets crazy custom object info strings. > > We don't want to waste time with encoding, supporting ascii is enough in > the vast majority of cases. Others invalid chars will be removed from > the XML-exported strings. But libxml doesn't like most characters > between 0 and 31. I could just use isprint() to check every character > before export and only keep those between 32 and 127. But what about \n, > \t, \r, \f which are before ? Do we want to allow them?
I don't have a strong opinion here. Does libxml allow them? -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
