Some characters have glyphs that cannot be visually distinguished from other characters, such as the non-breaking space ( ) ' ' and the space ( ) ' ', and the Cyrillic capital letter A (А) 'A' and the Latin capital letter A (A) 'A'. It might not be possible to type the character on the author's machine. Some character encodings support only a subset of Unicode.

The special characters are key syntax markers and may never appear in content outside a CDATA section. Few developers find it difficult to use XML special characters let’s say, when embedding a few texts inside a document with an ampersand, the parser couldn’t process the document.

For example, it is legal to encode an XML document in ASCII, but ASCII lacks code points for Unicode characters. XML Escaping provides escape facilities for including characters that are problematic to include directly. The special Characters <, > are converted into escaped equivalent like < and >.

XML Escaping provides escape facilities for including characters that are problematic to include directly. That is used to encode information for documentation, database records, transactions and For example a user inputting 'Hello to you & world' would break the. Since it only accepts XML I need to escape some characters so the flow does not post invalid XML data. I have a MS Form which acts as input for this webservice. XML's primary function is to create formats for data I need to call a webservice from a flow, which only accepts XML.

Markup A CDATA section is marked up starting with '< CDATA ' and ending with '>'.

It can appear anywhere character data can occur. XML is a markup language based on Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) A CDATA section in XML is used to escape text containing characters which would otherwise be recognized as markup.

Xml escape characters