ASCII control characters in CDATA section

[Nowhere]

Hi,

I need to preserve some ASCII control characters (CR and LF) within an XML file so I have included the data in a CDATA section. However, when parsing it using expat, I lose the CR characters.

My question is: Should I be using a different character set (not UTF-8) or is this a bug in expat?

TIA, Mark

 

[Martin Honnen]

I need to preserve some ASCII control characters (CR and LF) within an XML file so I have included the data in a CDATA section. However, when parsing it using expat, I lose the CR characters.

My question is: Should I be using a different character set (not UTF-8) or is this a bug in expat?

I don't think so, with XML all line endings are normalized http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-line-ends so even a CDATA section doesn't help to preserve a carriage return

 

[Richard Tobin]

I need to preserve some ASCII control characters (CR and LF) within an XML file so I have included the data in a CDATA section. However, when parsing it using expat, I lose the CR characters.

To preserve CRs, you need to use character references (