David, It kinda depends where the document originated. SOAP won't allow that - it requires that you always escape (if you follow the SOAP 1.2 specification) <thisdata>here's some text saying 2 < 3 ></thisdata>
Brian On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:16:18 -0400 David Beahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree, inside of a tag the Unicode equivalent is, if not required, certainly >prudent: > ><!ENTITY % xx '<zz;'> > >Think outside the tag. ;) > >Consider: > ><thisdata>"here's some text saying 2 < 3 > 2"</thisdata> > >If you FIELD() or EREPLACE or whatever on "<" or ">" then you're going to have >problems >when a document contains them in text. > ><quoted> >2.2 Characters > >[Definition: A parsed entity contains text, a sequence of characters, which may >represent markup or character data.] [Definition: A character is an atomic unit of >text >as specified by ISO/IEC 10646:2000 [ISO/IEC 10646]. Legal characters are tab, carriage >return, line feed, and the legal characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. The versions >of these standards cited in A.1 Normative References were current at the time this >document was prepared. New characters may be added to these standards by amendments or >new editions. Consequently, XML processors MUST accept any character in the range >specified for Char. ] ></quoted> > >Ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/ > >Best, >David Beahm > >Kevin King wrote: > >>Is it not against the XML standard to have a quoted string containing >>"<" or ">" in a tag? >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > >________________________________________________________________________ >This email was checked by MessageLabs SkyScan before entering Microgen. ________________________________________________________________________ This email was checked on leaving Microgen for viruses, similar malicious code and inappropriate content by MessageLabs SkyScan. DISCLAIMER This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information. In the event of any technical difficulty with this email, please contact the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microgen Information Management Solutions http://www.microgen.co.uk ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
