Re: '

Actually, double quotes are at issue they are used to enclose attribute
values.  I never said that double quotes shouldn't be escaped; they
absolutely should!  Single quotes don't have the same issues that
double quotes do.  How would leaving single quotes alone but
escaping double quotes break anything?

Jake

At 06:04 PM 4/7/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2003 17:41,
> Jacob Kjome wrote:
> > I'm actually not sure why XMLC would bother changing single quotes
> to
> > ' since single quotes aren't special characters in
> XML?  
>
> Single (and double) quotes aren't special characters per se, but they can
> cause problems inside of attribute values if they are not escaped. For
> example, consider setting "someAttribute" dynamically to
> 'quote: "here we 
> go"'. If quotes were not escaped, you'd get markup along the lines
> of
>
> <sometag someAttribute="quote: "here we go""
> />
>
> which is definitely *not* valid. That's why XMLC escapes quotes by
> default.
>
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