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At 3:57 PM -0500 12/19/01, Jonathan Borden wrote: >Hmmph... well I don't profess to understand much of this character stuff, >but it seemed to me logical that character refs would be a good way to >escape characters not otherwise allowed in text ... I'm sure there is a good >reason why this isn't allowed -- I mean it does let me stuff an < into an >attribute, so what is the huge difference between that and � ? Oh well, >I never should have piped in on this thread anyways... > The difference is that < is a legal character in C strings whereas NUL is not. Once the parser decodes that reference and tries to stick it in a string or stuff it in a database, all hell can break loose. Some languages are more hell-resistant than others, but it's a big enough problem that it does need to be considered. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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