Mashables and Mashups : Mashups in EMML : Advanced Mashup Techniques : Adding Special Characters to Data : XML Character Entities
XML Character Entities
XML has character entities predefined for all XML delimiters such as < or &. In addition, XML supports character entities for any Unicode character in one of two forms:
*&#nnn; = where nnn is the decimal number for the Unicode character.
*&#xnnn; = where nnn is the hexadecimal number for the Unicode character.
Some of the most common special characters you may want to use include:
Character
Named Form
Decimal Form
Hexadecimal
<
&lt;
&#060;
&#x3C;
>
&gt;
&#062;
&#x3E;
&
&amp;
&#038;
$#x26;
non-breaking space
&#160;
&#xA0;
line-end
&#010;
&#x0A;
tab
&#009;
&#x09;
For a complete list of Unicode character points, see the Unicode Code Charts or the character Name Index.
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