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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

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