But i am using libxml2 C library API's for writing string data... I dont know what strings i will be getting in my application...It is dynamic. So i was wondering is there any API which could help me out to take care of special characters.
Thanks, Sam On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 17:35 -0500, samaram s wrote: > > > I am working with libxml2 library for one of my application. > > But in my data there are few strings which has some special characters > like > > ('&' , < , >) etc > > You need to escape some of these characters in your data. > > For & use & instead. > > For < and > use < and > > > Inside attribute values, for " and ' use " and ' > (you can quote them in other places too but it is not necessary) > > For example, > <activity whose="Susan's">R & D budget < 30000</activity> > might be quoted as > <activity whose="Susan's">R & D budget ^lt; 30000</activity> > > You only need to quote " in attribute values if " was used for the > quotes and the same with ', like this > <activity whose='Susan's'>.... > > > You do not need to use a DTD for any of this. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > > >
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