On Jan 19, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Adam Megacz wrote:
I still take issue with
What characters are allowed in strings? Non-printable characters?
Null characters? Can a "string" be used to hold an arbitrary chunk of
binary data?
Any characters are allowed in a string except < and &, which are encoded as < and &. A string can be used to encode binary data.
Can I ask a likely stupid question here? Why aren't the strings sent in CDATA sections? I have to admit that I hacked this implementation to use CDATA for any string over 100 byte (arbitrary). The results I return to the caller usually include an XML document that's often sizable. The cost of encoding the < and & characters was fairly high and I achieved quite a performance improvement by just using CDATA. I didn't offer it to the community since I figure there was a very good reason why it wasn't used. But, I'm curious as to that reason.
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