Re: vcard DTD

David Brownell (db@Eng.Sun.COM)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 15:14:33 -0800


"Mark D. Anderson" wrote:
>
> nor what happens when the value is actually kept in a vCard "VALUE" parameter,
> nor what they do with "<" or "&" in a vCard value or parameter.

So what's the issue here? Dave Winer mentioned a similar issue
that forced him to encode some text in "base64" ...

Are XML-emitting tools just being incorrect? "<" in text should
always be encoded as "&lt;" (it'll be un-encoded during parsing),
and "&" as "&amp;" (ditto).

- Dave