LeVan,Ralph wrote:

>How can there be a character that you can't at least serialize as a hex
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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.

-- Adam

>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 characters which I
>>can't serialize to XML and/or successfully deserialize, for example the
>>ascii escape character.  (Why this is in the index I have no idea, 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 of a bad lot.
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>>* Return a term with a null value?
>>   Wrong, as a search for the null value may or may not produce results.
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>>* Strip out the unserializable characters and return the resulting term?
>>   Seems wrong as the numberOfRecords will probably be wrong, barring good
>>   fortune.
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>>* Other?
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>>Rob
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