How to Pass Reserved Characters as Data in XML

Description

How to pass XML reserved characters (&, <, >, ",') as XML data in Loftware

Requirements

MS-XML Parser Version 3.0 or higher (included with Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher)

How to Pass Reserved Characters in XML

XML substitution formats are as follows:

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XML sample

<pre class="syntaxhighlighter-pre" xml:space="preserve">Ampersand (&):        &amp;
Less than (<):        &lt;
Greater than (>):    &gt;
Quote ("):            &quot;
Apostrophe ('):        &apos;
</pre>

Example
The data string "Ben & Jerry's" would look like:

Note

Loftware has adopted Microsoft's XML Parser rules as of 8.3 and newer. Some characters that you could pass without interpretation using Loftware's rules in version 7.x will not work in 9.x. Here is a Microsoft Technical link regarding XML parsing:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms145315(v=sql.90).aspx

Article Number

2016066

Versions

Loftware Version 8.3 or higher

Environment

Any supported LPS family product environment