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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Ron Coutts <Ro...@quadrus.com> on 2001/12/04 20:04:24 UTC
XML question related to build.xml development
Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but I thought many Ant users
may find the answer helpful when setting up build.xml files.
How does one 'escape' a quote character into XML. For example:
<property name="foo" value="X" />
If now instead of X, I want to put "X" in there, (i.e. with the double
quotes). How do I do that? The following doesn't seem to work.
<properaty value="\"X\"" />
Ron
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Re: XML question related to build.xml development
Posted by Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>.
Ron Coutts wrote:
> Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but I thought many Ant users
> may find the answer helpful when setting up build.xml files.
> How does one 'escape' a quote character into XML. For example:
> <property name="foo" value="X" />
> If now instead of X, I want to put "X" in there, (i.e. with the double
> quotes). How do I do that? The following doesn't seem to work.
> <properaty value="\"X\"" />
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Re: XML question related to build.xml development
Posted by "Kyle R . Burton" <mo...@voicenet.com>.
> Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but I thought many Ant users
> may find the answer helpful when setting up build.xml files.
> How does one 'escape' a quote character into XML. For example:
> <property name="foo" value="X" />
> If now instead of X, I want to put "X" in there, (i.e. with the double
> quotes). How do I do that? The following doesn't seem to work.
> <properaty value="\"X\"" />
XML supports ligatures similar to HTML. So you can do:
<property value=""X"">
It also supports numberd characters:

But I wouldn't recommend using numbered entities. Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Kyle R. Burton
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