Matthew J. Dovey wrote:

>Are you sure - they seem to be listed in the Unicode standard "Controls
>and Basic Latin" set. (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf)
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OK. libxml2 fails this.
<x>
&#27;
</x>

What does other people's XML parsers do? If they work, I'll file a bug
report to xmlsoft.

-- Adam

>Matthew
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>On Behalf Of Adam Dickmeiss
>>Sent: 28 June 2004 15:53
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Unserializable scan response
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>>LeVan,Ralph wrote:
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>>>How can there be a character that you can't at least
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>>>code?
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>>All hex codes (when given as &#..) must be part of UNICODE
>>charset. And ESC and some others in range 0x01-0x1f aren't valid.
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>>-- Adam
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>>>Ralph
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:02 AM
>>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>Subject: Unserializable scan response
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>>>>I've got a gateway to a Z39.50 server which returns
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>>characters which I
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>>>>can't serialize to XML and/or successfully deserialize, for example
>>>>the ascii escape character.  (Why this is in the index I
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>>>>as it makes the term impossible to search with, but that's not my
>>>>problem or my
>>>>fault)
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>>>>As we don't have term surrogate diagnostics, what do I do?
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>>>>* Simply omit the term?
>>>>  This seems wrong, but I'm tending towards it as the best
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>>>>* Return a term with a null value?
>>>>  Wrong, as a search for the null value may or may not
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>>>>* Strip out the unserializable characters and return the
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>>resulting term?
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>>>>  Seems wrong as the numberOfRecords will probably be
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>>wrong, barring good
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>>>>  fortune.
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>>>>* Other?
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>>>>Rob
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