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On 30 Dec 2005, at 01:48, Goh Tor Meng wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have question regarding the treatment of '\r' in the method  
> chardata(String).
>
> Presently my application is trying to send a pgp signature using  
> xmlrpc. However
> we found out that XmlWriter is writing '&#13' when it encounters a  
> carriage return.
> This is casing a problem on the receiving side during signature  
> verification.
>
> code snippet from XmlWriter
> -----------------------------------------------
>           case '\r':
>               // Avoid normalization of CR to LF.
>               writeCharacterReference(c);
>               break;
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> I understand that '\r' is a valid xml character and the  
> isValidXMLChar(char c) method
> also returns true when '\r' is encountered. But before  
> isValidXMLChar is called,
> '&#13' has already been written.
>
> I'm trying to understand why this is so. Can the CR be preserved in  
> the XML message
> instead of being written as ''&#13' ?

If this is causing you a problem then you are not using an XML parser  
to read the response.

Can you please  tell us how you handing the XML-RPC response?

John Wilson
The Wilson Partnership
http://www.wilson.co.uk