Special Characters in XML

[schiise]

I'm currently doing an xml based website, and I have some questions regarding this.
I have a problem that the xml file can't accept special characters. It shows error, something like the following:


A name contained an invalid character. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents and Settings/student/Desktop/Java/book10.xml'. Line 254, Position 22

---^ elvis<elvis@email.com>


I had this error when i opened the file on Internet Browser. It seems that the xml file doesnt accept special characters like '@'. may i know what's the mistake that i've made? or is there any solutions to this problems?thanks in advance.

[Charles]

The problem is that the parser thinks that elvis@email.com is an element name and amphorae are illegal characters in element names. Instead of <elvis@email.com> try &amp;lt;elvis@email.com&amp;gt;.

[Ben Rogers]

Apologies for thread necromancy, but I have a question pertaining to this topic. On my site I send my pages as application/xml+xhtml, and in the footer I use the copyright character (&copy;). While this is no problem in Firefox, it appears Thunderbird has a problem with it.

Thunderbird's RSS Feed Reader
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: http://projep.no-ip.com:81/blog/archives/onions/
Line Number 96, Column 26:<p id="footer">Copyright &amp;copy; 2004 Ben Rogers</p>

I cannot enclose the copyright character in CDATA, because then the HTML entity is shown, but it's obviously not going to work as a special character. Please advise.

Thanks for your time.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

try

& #169;

[Ben Rogers]

Originally posted by LiLcRaZyFuZzY
try

& #169;

I haven't tried it msyelf yet, but I asked someone to look at it for me in Thunderbird (I uninstalled it, it bothered me) and they said it 'twas fine. Thanks.

[Eshu]

You can use "&amp;" instead of @ symbol.

[al239]

I have been using — &#151 ; for an em-dash and the xml embedded to Flash gives a
small box (PC) or a small head-image (MAC). Does anyone have a solution to define this character or an answer besides just putting two dashes?

NEED HELP ASAP!! THanks!

[Eshu]

Try the following code in your style sheet and see if this works for you.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output use-character-maps="cm1"/>
  <xsl:character-map name="cm1">
      <xsl:output-character character="—" string="--"/>
  </xsl:character-map>

<xsl:template .....>
    <xsl Statements...>
    <xsl Statements...>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Note : In the xsl:Output-character, assign the character as character="<ampersand symbol><hash Symbol>8212;"