----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Redman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:14 AM Subject: Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6763] - XMLWriter doesn't escape enough characters
> From a position of complete ignorance, and without reading the spec. can > someone clarify for me what this means? > > The part of the spec quoted here says that you can't used binary chars, > however "" seems to meet the requirement of the spec in that it > matches "the production for Char". No the spec says that the result of turning the escaped character back to a Unicode character must match the production Char. This control character does not match that prduction. There is an excellent annotated spec here http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm > > Regardless of whether xmlrpc should be doing the escaping, it seems to me > that I should be able to send a String that would be invalid XML by > escaping each character - the resulting string seems to be valid. This is > philosphically the same as sending new line characters as "\\n" in human > readable strings. > > Is this the case or is it required that anything that may have a non-Char > in it be base64 encoded? If you want to send control characters (other than /r /n /t - and an XML parser will mangle the /r and /n) then you need to use Base64 and agree a Unicode encoding between the end points. John Wilson The Wilson Partnership http://www.wilson.co.uk
