Illegal Characters For XML

[jbl1167]

I need to write a piece of code able to get a text file and generate an XML file from it. I am ok generating tags and with the structure but I need help in validating against illegal characters. Do anyone have a list of the characters that are not valid. I do know that the ampersand is not legal but I know that there are ranges of Ascii characters that are not. Could you please help me on this?

Thank you

 

[k5tm]

This is explained here. You might benefit from taking the whole XML tutorial before you start if you are new to XML.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[tsuji]

Legal characters of any parsed entity of xml v1.0 are defined in the section 2.2 of the spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets

To blow some life to the dry spec of that concern by contrasting it with the badly-loved xml v1.1, checking out the same section in the latter's spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#charsets

which excludes less than v1.0.