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Asger Joergensen wrote:
[...]
> Thes characters are not alowed in the text in XML files
> & " ' < >
> they are reserved for tags and they must be translated to
> &amp; &quot; &apos; &lt; &gt;

No, only & and < are forbidden in text unless escaped. The characters
" ' > are just text and do not require escaping, although > acquires a
special meaning in a start-tag or end-tag, and " and ' are bound by
rules of matching and nesting when used in attributes.

///Peter
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Hi Peter

Peter Flynn wrote:

> Asger Joergensen wrote:
> [...]
> > Thes characters are not alowed in the text in XML files
> > & " ' < >
> > they are reserved for tags and they must be translated to
> > &amp; &quot; &apos; &lt; &gt;
>
> No, only & and < are forbidden in text unless escaped. The characters
> " ' > are just text and do not require escaping, although > acquires a special meaning in a start-tag or end-tag, and " and ' are bound by rules of matching and nesting when used in attributes.

You are of cource right, BUT it is commen / good practise to escape
all five.

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_syntax.asp

Kind regards
Asger

Asger Joergensen wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> Peter Flynn wrote:
>
>> Asger Joergensen wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Thes characters are not alowed in the text in XML files
>>> & " ' < >
>>> they are reserved for tags and they must be translated to
>>> &amp; &quot; &apos; &lt; &gt;
>> No, only & and < are forbidden in text unless escaped. The characters
>> " ' > are just text and do not require escaping, although > acquires a special meaning in a start-tag or end-tag, and " and ' are bound by rules of matching and nesting when used in attributes.
>
> You are of cource right, BUT it is commen / good practise to escape
> all five.

Possibly. It depends what system you are writing for. If you are writing
normal text, you probably want to avoid " and ' as quotes completely,
and use real (curly) open-and-close quotes (single and double) and keep
the ' for an apostrophe. The > occurs very rarely in normal text. When
used in its mathematical sense, it will of course be inside some kind of
<math> element; either way it is a matter of personal preference whether
you use it raw or in the form of a character reference.

> http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_syntax.asp

The W3Schools pages are not always reliable or accurate (these ones are OK).

///Peter

[JanMoek]

I'm dealing with a simulair problem.
Im my XML Tag there is used de O-slash

like: <DESCRIPTION>Powers Ø 12,7mm EV</DESCRIPTION>

when I parse these with php it results in 2 tags
<DESCRIPTION>Powers</DESCRIPTION>
<DESCRIPTION>Ø 12,7mm EV</DESCRIPTION>

when I remove the O-slash everything is fine.

How can i solve this ??
I've tried Unicode and ISO-8859-1 aswell
and place

xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_ WHITE,1);
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_TARGE T_ENCODING, "ISO-8859-1");

in my code....
but still get the 2 tags

please help