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Special (Escape) Characters

The EAI XML Converter can handle special characters for inbound and outbound XML, as shown in Table 3. Non-Siebel XML should already handle special characters before integrating into the Siebel application. Special characters are indicated by enclosing the text for the character between an ampersand (&) and a semicolon (;). Also, if the XML is passed in a URL, then URL encoding of special characters is required as shown in Table 3.

Table 3.  XML Escape Characters (Character Entities)
            Character
Entity
URL Encoded
<
&lt;
%26lt%3B
>
&gt;
%26gt%3B
&
&amp;
%26amp%3B
"
&quot;
%26quot%3B
'
&apos;
%26apos%3B
Unicode Character (Decimal)
&#09;
%26%2309%3B
Unicode Character (Hex)
&#x00B0;
%26%23x00B0%3B
Date
Must follow the ISO 8601 format
N/A


 XML Reference: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume V 
 Published: 23 June 2003