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RE: Converting &, >, <, ", and other odd-ball characters...
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Converting &, >, <, ", and other odd-ball characters...
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:27:01 -0000
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> but I
> wish there was
> a way to tell the XML parser "if you see & replace it with
> &, if you
> see...". I take it there is no way at the top of an XML page
> to tell the XML parser to convert these characters?
Of course not. The reason they have to be escaped is so that the parser can
recognize "<" as the start of a tag, and "&" as the start of an entity
reference.
Mike Kay
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