At 01:38 AM 10/6/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Can anyone tell me the best way to include HTML in an XML tag without
>causing parsing problems?
>
>Something like:
>
><item>
><name>blah</name>
><desc><font size="2">�10 each</font><br></desc>
></item>
>
>Breaks and pound signs are a no-no in XML so... I've tried using a CDATA[]
>section. But this both escapes the data within it and rejects pound signs
>completely as being invalid.
>
>I could escape the string before outputting into the XML tag, but I would
>then need some way of un-escaping it in XML. Is this a possible approach?
>
>Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
>Ta,
>
>--Jim
The � is £
Hex codes for other character entities may be found at
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Jan Egil Kristiansen
