[jdom-interest] ASCII Non Printable Characters

[Gordon, Simon]

> Will using XML SCHEMA solve this problem ?
No

> Does Xerces support XML Schema ?
Yes but not in the way you want it to (see answer above).

> Is there any seamless way to do handle these non-printable characters ?
No. the usual way is to encode non-valid sequences in BASE64. If you have an
XML tag that may contain ESC etc. then I would add an attribute to it to
signal the receiver that it has been encoded E.g.

<MyStuff encoding="Text">12456</MyStuff>

and

<MyStuff encoding'BASE64">zAbDc=</MyStuff>

can both be handled by the receiver.

> If you have made it this far ......... thanks for reading.
That's OK.