I know that the entities < and > are used for < and >, but I am curious what these names stand for. Does < stand for something like "Left tag" or is it just a code?
In HTML, you can write the greater than sign ">" as > and the less than symbol "<" as <. Is this encoding defined by the HTML encoding or some standard like ISO, UTF-xxx, BaseXXX...
Short answer If you're putting the text in a safe location in a document that uses a fully-Unicode-compatible text encoding like UTF-8, HTML only requires the same five characters to be escaped as XML: the ampersand & as &, the less-than sign < as <, the greater-than sign > as >, the double-quote " as ", and the single-quote ' as '. Safe locations are directly in the contents of ...
How would I write the entity name in HTML and not have it do its function? Example: I'm doing a tutorial and want to tell someone how to use the non-breaking space in their code (&nbsp;) So, ho...
Something like *-lt-* will probably do. Have the parser produce the file & save it. Read in the file as plaintext, and replace your instances of *-lt-* with the regular < character. Re-write the file, clobbering the version that was written by the XML parser.
i have to write a few lines to a xml file which should contain < and > symbols as part of value of a tag. i am setting them in a string that has some text along with < and > symbols , and af...
