From:           	Duncan Cameron <dcameron@[...].uk> 
>  >It's not nice, but it gets the job done.
>  >
>  You're right, it's not nice and you might find further problems
>  downstream. You appear to be building in too much 'magic'. Bear in
>  mind that &#x02; is not  a valid XML character reference.  Every time
>  that you or someone else processes the parsed data you have to then
>  expand these pseudo character entities.
>  
>  If your database data can contain 'binary' values then you might
>  consider encoding all fields as base64, or at least only those fields
>  which may contain binary data. base64 encoding increases the size of
>  your data by 1/3 but otherwise is a clean way to do it.

Oops. Should have thought about that myself. I think quoted-
printable is better in my case (I'd like to keep the stuff readable and 
there are not many of those characters.)

No the only problem left ... the XML generation is in VisualBasic ... 
but that's a question for another forum :-)

Thanks a lot, Jenda

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