Re: '

Richard Kunze <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:04:37 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.enhydra.xmlc
Organization	Tivano Software GmbH
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Monday 07 April 2003 17:41, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> I'm actually not sure why XMLC would bother changing single quotes to
> &apos; since single quotes aren't special characters in XML?  

Single (and double) quotes aren't special characters per se, but they can 
cause problems inside of attribute values if they are not escaped. For 
example, consider setting "someAttribute" dynamically to 'quote: "here we 
go"'. If quotes were not escaped, you'd get markup along the lines of

<sometag someAttribute="quote: "here we go"" />

which is definitely *not* valid. That's why XMLC escapes quotes by default.

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