Hand made XML – HTML

Sometime,appen is required to produce an Xml Document where you can’t have a good Xml parser or for perfomance you can’t use that , so you need to encode and decode it manually to produce or read a standard document.
Assuming thay you need create a simple Xml file like :

Worng Xml file :

      Rossi
      Rossiglio
      27/02/1973
      pippo&pluto

This file is not correct beacause you are usign some special char that is used by Xml format internally. XML has reserved characters, with standard escape sequences, termed ‘external entities’.

Correct Xml file :

      Rossi
      Rossiglio
      27/02/1973
      pippo&pluto

XML reserved characters :

only using this five chars you are able to pruduce correct strings for Xml statements, replacing Source char with the Xml Entity.

Html have the escape char too, like an ascii code. Next the html escape table :

Html escape character set :