XML and non displayable ASCII characters

owain · June 11th, 2003, 11:05 AM

Is it considered legal to include non displayable characters in the node content?

For example, the ASCII character 0 can not be represented on the screen

Regards
Owain Williams

joefawcett · June 12th, 2003, 03:47 AM

As far as I know you can only have characters 0x9 (tab), 0xA (new line) and 0xD (return) below the character 0x20 (space).

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Joe

pgtips · June 12th, 2003, 04:58 AM

Joe is spot-on. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#charsets. I guess you could store the char codes as integers instead and do some translation in your program...