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Filip
Filip

Reputation: 153

How do I escape unicode character 0x1F in xml?

I need to write a text with the unicode character 0x1F in a utf-8 document (it is not an allowed character in xml). Is there a way to escape it, or do I have to discard it?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 21819

Answers (2)

Mihai Nita
Mihai Nita

Reputation: 5787

Using 0x1F XML is illegal (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#charsets). so there is no way to do it, except from encoding it yourself in some way. base-64 (as proposed), or url encode, or any other option that the xml does not understand. It is the same problem as storing binary data in xml.

Upvotes: 3

David M
David M

Reputation: 72850

This will do it in XML 1.1 (but is discouraged):



It isn't supported at all in XML 1.0. A workaround is to base-64 encode the text containing the character.

Upvotes: 9

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