Re: [weirds] feedback on draft-designteam-weirds-using-http

If you need to specify non-ascii characters in an XML document, you either have to:

a) Encode the characters in their XML entities ñ -> &#241;  or

b) use a CDATA instruction: Unparsed Character Data [1]

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

The latter approach seems to be more efficient for some.

On May 17, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 2012-05-17 20:54, Andy Newton wrote:
>> ...
>>>> Ah yes, the escaping needs to be changed from JSON to XML.
>>> 
>>> There's still a set of characters that won't be usable in XML (yes, not even escaped).
>> 
>> That would be&,<, and>. So I guess we should mention those are to be escaped as well. Gosh XML is overly complex.
>> ...
> 
> No :-).
> 
> JSON allows all C0 control characters. XML only allows TAB, CR, and LF. You can't represent the others in plain XML (you can always invent *another* escaping syntax on top of XML, though).
> 
> And no, XML is not overly complex. It just has certain constraints that make sense for the things it was designed for.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
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