[XOM-interest] entity in attribute value
Michael Kay
mike at saxonica.com
Tue Jan 13 14:52:39 EST 2009
> Thanks Elliotte, but this does not help me. I need to store a
> string which happens to have special meaning for XML. Either
> there is a way to escape it (i.e. tell XML that this string
> does not have the special meaning it thinks it has) or there
> isn't. The latter is still OK. I will work the problem around
> outside of XML and archive this issue in the "XML sucks" folder :)
You can write it as € if you really want to. But why on earth would
you want to use something that looks just like an entity reference but isn't
one?
Every technology sucks if you misuse it. I've got a brand new digital camera
and it's no good at hammering nails. Perhaps the problem is with the user,
not with the technology?
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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