Re: '

Actually, double quotes are at issue they are used to enclose attribute 
values.  I never said that double quotes shouldn't be escaped; they 
absolutely should!  Single quotes don't have the same issues that double 
quotes do.  How would leaving single quotes alone but escaping double 
quotes break anything?

Jake

At 06:04 PM 4/7/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>On Monday 07 April 2003 17:41, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> > I'm actually not sure why XMLC would bother changing single quotes to
> > ' 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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