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I will go scream at nate, but I don't think he'll listen to me :)

Anyway, are you saying that the Everything Engine should be encoding the special characters into HTML entities before spitting them out as XML?

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Re: Re: Re: Re: (jeffa) Re: An ampersand is not well-formed XML data?
by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 30, 2001 at 21:20 UTC
    Anyway, are you saying that the Everything Engine should be encoding the special characters into HTML entities before spitting them out as XML?
    Precisely. It's not XML unless it's well-formed XML. That's the definition! If something is spitting out bad non-XML, then get them to fix it. The whole point of XML is that if everyone plays by the rules, it's all clean and easy.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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