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  1. Jul 16th, 2006, 01:35 PM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] [XML] Using < and > in XML tags?

    Is it possible to use < and > in XML tags?

    Like this: <tag><blah></tag>, so that when I read 'tag', the value of '<blah>' will be returned.

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    Re: [XML] Using < and > in XML tags?

    Yes but change <blah> to &lt;blah&gt;
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    Re: [XML] Using < and > in XML tags?

    Not quite like that.... you have to encode it first.... so that the < becomes &lt; and the > becomes &gt; ... once you have that.... you then need to encode the & so that XML parsers will validate it properly... so &lt; and &gt; become, &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; ..... then you can stick your data into the tags.... nutters I know, but that's the short of it.

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    Re: [XML] Using < and > in XML tags?

    Can you give me a push in the right direction on 'encoding characters'?

    As my knowledge in XML is not quite up to it.
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    Re: [XML] Using < and > in XML tags?

    They just did. To XML-encode a string, just change every < to &lt; and every & to &amp;. You can also change > to &gt;, but that's not actually necessary.
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    Re: [XML] Using < and > in XML tags?

    Ah, that's easy. I thought it required some sort of coding, which confused me extra as I was always thaught that XML is not for actual programming, only for file structuring.

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