Valid XML characters 2003-01-03 - By Dima Gutzeit
<DIV>Thanks for you answer.</DIV>
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<DIV>Could you please provide me with the "legal" Unicode range for XML , so I
would know what to filter out.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Joseph Kesselman wrote:<BR>>Subject: Re: Valid XML characters <BR>
> From: Joseph Kesselman <KESHLAM@(protected)><BR>> To: xerces-j-user@(protected)
.apache.org <BR>> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:27:28 -0500 <BR>> <BR>> <BR>
>On Thursday, 12/26/2002 at 07:23 ZE2, "Dima Gutzeit" <DIMA@(protected)>
<BR>>wrote: <BR>>> Sometimes when parsing XML files I get an error
message(exception) about <BR>> <BR>>> "invalid Unicode characters" ,
is there any way to filter those before <BR>>parsing ? <BR>> <BR>>
;There's no way to do that within the parser. "If it contains illegal <BR>>
;characters, it isn't XML" and the error messages are entirely correct. <BR>>
<BR>>You could, of course, write your own stream filter and pass the data
<BR>>through that, then use its output as the input to the parser. That's <BR
>>fairly straightforward Java coding. The problem would be deciding what <BR>
>you're going to do with those characters when yo!
u see them -- if you just <BR>>discard them you may be changing the meaning
of the document, and if you <BR>>turn them into some sort of private escape
sequence only applications <BR>>which understand that convention will be
able to do anything with them. <BR>>Fixing the source documents really is
the cleanest answer. <BR>> <BR>>For what it's worth: It has been proposed
that future versions of XML <BR>>*may* relax the forbidden-character
restrictions, but there's still no <BR>>firm consensus on whether that
change would be desirable or what version <BR>>of XML it might find its way
into. <BR>> <BR>>______________________________________ <BR>>Joe
Kesselman / IBM Research <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>----------------------------
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