From: Duncan Cameron <dcameron@[...].uk> 
>  On 2002-03-29 Jenda Krynicky wrote:
>  >I'm using XML files to replicate some settings and other stuff 
>  >between several servers (thanks for your previous help!). Everything
>  >is cool except one thing.
>  >
>  >I use character with code 2 as a separator or marker on several
>  >places in the database.
>  >the problem is that if I write a string containing a chr(2) into an
>  >XML file, XMP::Parser (used via XML::Simple) will refuse to parse the
>  >file

>  XML doesn't allow such a character value, see the XML character
>  definition http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#charsets

Aaaagrrrrrrr. Someone thought they're clever ...

Who would it hurt if the parsers allowed &#anynumber; ?

>  >And if not what character would you recomend to be used 
>  >(escaped if necessary) to make XML::Parser happy, but still being
>  >reasonably safe that it will not be mistaken for "normal" data.
>  That depends on what your application defines as 'normal data'.
>  Not sure that I fully understand what you want to do so I can't really
>  suggest anything.

Basicaly all I want is to write some data from the database on one 
computer to a file and read them in on another. I did not expect to 
be restricted to "text only".

Anyway thanks to suggestion by Chris Strom I'll do it this way ... 

	1) if the string doesn't contain any "forbidden" characters :

		escape what necessary and write "<TAG> $text</TAG>"

	2) otherwise

		escape & and >  as usual, escape the forbidden ones as
		&#...;, write "<TAG> <![CDATA[$text]]></TAG>" to keep
		the escapes away from XML::Parser and when reading
		unescape myself.

It's not nice, but it gets the job done.

Thanks, Jenda

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