Questions tagged [xml-encoding]
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Meaning of -
I am new to XML and I am trying to understand the basics. I read the line below in "Learning XML", but it is still not clear, for me. Can someone point me to a book or website which explains these basics clearly?
From Learning XML:
The XML…

XML Boy
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Xml Escaping/Encoding terminology
I'm confused as for the difference between the terms "escaping" and "encoding" in phrases like:
Xml Encoding
Xml Escaping
Encoded Html
Escaped Url
...
Can anyone explain it to me?

Yaron Naveh
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How do I XML-encode a string in Erlang?
I have a erlang string which may contain characters like & " < and so on:
1> Unenc = "string & \"stuff\" <".
ok
Is there a Erlang function somewhere that parses the string and encodes all the needed HTML/XML entities, such as:
2> Enc =…

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Web Api XML, How to set Encoding, Version, xmlns:xsi and xsi:schemaLocation
I am using asp.net MVC4 Web Api.
I have set:
Dim xml = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.XmlFormatter
xml.UseXmlSerializer = True
I have created a class that specifies the XML I need and this works well.
I am almost there but I am not…

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Boost read/write XML file: how to change the characters encoding?
I'm trying to read/write an XML file, using Boost functions read_xml and write_xml.
The XML file original encoding is "windows-1252", but after the read/write operations, the encoding became "utf-8".
This is the XML original file:

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Why does my DataTable not serialize correctly when column names contain spaces?
Normally I try to stay well clear of DataSets and DataTables, but we currently have a requirement where it seems to make sense to use them.
I'm having some problems serializing a DataTable when the DataColumn name contains a space and the type of…

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Encoder class (org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultEncoder) CTOR threw exception
I am trying to run a sample program which encodes using ESAPI.
Here is the sample program
package hello;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import org.owasp.esapi.ESAPI;
import org.owasp.esapi.Encoder;
import…

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how to give encoding as ISO-8859-1 in xml created using LINQ
I have to create an xml file which has encoding as
Currently the xml I am creating using LINQ is having tag as
how can I do this using LINQ only.

Silver
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XML serialization and "<" , ">" when generating an HTML document
I'm trying to dynamically generate an HTML table by using XmlSerializer and a set of classes like this:
[XmlInclude(typeof(Th))]
public class Td
{
[XmlElement("span")]
public string Designation { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute("colspan")]
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Apache Camel to handle encoding declared in XML-File
I'm trying to parse an UTF-16 encoded document using Apache Camel Splitter with xtokenize, this delegates to Woodstox (com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader), also I cannot know the encoding of a file before I read it, currently some files are UTF-16,…

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When parsing Atom XML feeds, how should conflicting CDATA and entity escaped elements be handled?
How should an Atom feed parser handle the following line of XML in a feed:
For the sake of the discussion, lets assume that the originally intended text was in fact Johnson & Johnson. I…

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How do I XmlDocument.Save() to encoding="us-ascii" with numeric character entities instead of question marks?
My goal is to get a binary buffer (MemoryStream.ToArray() would yield byte[] in this case) of XML without losing the Unicode characters. I would expect the XML serializer to use numeric character references to represent anything that would be…

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"Unexpected token ERROR found" error shown at netbeans working on a jsf project for percent (%) character
I am facing a strange issue with netbeans and jsf, it is not fatal but quite annoying.
For some reason I am getting the error "Unexpected character % found Unexpected token ERROR found" from netbeans for the following code block.
It is complaining…

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DOM4J Document: read an ISO-8859-1 xml
I need to read an xml file that is encoded in ISO-8859-1.
I'm using:
Document document = reader.read(new File(sourceFile));
document.setXMLEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
I'm getting a "cannot find symbol" error for setXMLEncoding. This seems like it…

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How to fix a windows-1256 xml parsing error in android?
I have an error when parsing an xml document with sax parser in android. Can someone help me fix this error?
The error looks like this:
org.apache.harmony.xml.ExpatParser$ParseException: At line 5, column 9: not well-formed (invalid token)
The xml…

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