• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:02:53 +0100

On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 15:27 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:

>     2Hello World3
> 
> is converted to this XML:
> 
>    <text>U2XHello WorldU3X</text>
> 
> Is that the approach Liam?
Yes - and U turns into U55X in this scheme.

> Have you documented this approach anywhere?
No - it was too awful! But it's useful if you might need non-XML
characters in element names, and it can result in an all-7bit-ascii
document if you need that.

Liam


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• References:
  • Re: Storing illegal XML 1.0 characters in the UnicodePrivate Use Area
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
  • RE: Storing illegal XML 1.0 characters in the UnicodePrivate Use Area
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>