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xml escaping characters for database password
Hi,
I'm using mysql via JDBC and I need to encode a password with
non-alphabet characters in it like % in my server.xml.
Do I use a URL encoding for this or an XML encoding?
Also while I'm on the subject, do I have to encode or escape a
double-quote in an xml attribute:
<mynode attr1="blahblah\"blah\"blah"/>
or is there some other encoding I should use?
Thanks
Adam
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Re: xml escaping characters for database password
Posted by Adam Hardy <ah...@cyberspaceroad.com>.
On 12/18/2003 02:54 AM Justin Ruthenbeck wrote:
> At 05:34 PM 12/17/2003, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm using mysql via JDBC and I need to encode a password with
>> non-alphabet characters in it like % in my server.xml.
>>
>> Do I use a URL encoding for this or an XML encoding?
>
>
> I don't know for sure as I haven't used mysql specifically, but if the
> password will be read by an xml parser, then you'll want to xml encode
> it. If the password is part of a URI that is specified in an XML, then
> you'll want to URL-encode the character(s) and XML encode any
> problematic characters from that output.
>
>> Also while I'm on the subject, do I have to encode or escape a
>> double-quote in an xml attribute:
>>
>> <mynode attr1="blahblah\"blah\"blah"/>
>
>
> " in this case. This can depend on your parser (or at least it has
> in older parsers).
>
>> Thanks
>> Adam
>
>
> justin
Thanks v. much
Adam
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Re: xml escaping characters for database password
Posted by Justin Ruthenbeck <ju...@nextengine.com>.
At 05:34 PM 12/17/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm using mysql via JDBC and I need to encode a password with
>non-alphabet characters in it like % in my server.xml.
>
>Do I use a URL encoding for this or an XML encoding?
I don't know for sure as I haven't used mysql specifically, but if the
password will be read by an xml parser, then you'll want to xml encode
it. If the password is part of a URI that is specified in an XML, then
you'll want to URL-encode the character(s) and XML encode any problematic
characters from that output.
>Also while I'm on the subject, do I have to encode or escape a
>double-quote in an xml attribute:
>
><mynode attr1="blahblah\"blah\"blah"/>
" in this case. This can depend on your parser (or at least it has
in older parsers).
>Thanks
>Adam
justin
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