Available ASCII characters are shown in the following table:
5.2.3 XML Formatting Basics
Configuration parameters are stored in an XML format. The following are guidelines for using XML.
– XML files have a in hierarchical structured that uses elements and attributes to identify the structure and
content of data.
– XML documents must contain a root element.
– All elements in an XML file can contain sub elements and attributes.
– An XML file starts at the root element and branches to the lowest level of elements.
– Elements are delimited by angle brackets. Elements begin with a start-tag: <element>, and end with an
end-tag: </element>.
– Attributes are name-value pairs that occur inside start-tags after the element name.
– Comments begin with "<!--" and end with "-->". Comments can contain any data except the literal string
"--".
Predefined Entities of XML
The following entities must be used when rendering the following characters in XML.
Character
Entity Description
" " Quotation mark
& & Ampersand
' ' Apostrophe
< < Less-than sign
> > Greater-than sign
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