From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Orgmode → ODT: Certain chars break export
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:41:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761b569xc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw4hn6bx.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:07:14 +0100")
There is a helpful wiki page now that you found XML; it even mentions my specific character.[1] The main source seems to be at the w3.org spec.[2]
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> From a user perspective just stripping the characters seems best to
>> me, but finding out what the characters seems obnoxious.
>
> But maybe there is a valid way to represent such characters in XML? At
> the very least entities must be replaced before stripping these...
>
>> Neither a quick search nor skimming the ODT doc specification[1][2] seem
>> to give any insight into a set of illegal characters. Does elisp have
>> anything similar to Java's "isWhitespace"[3] that could be used to check
>> character features?
>
> It's an XML thing. When I tried to open the contents.xml with Firefox it
> also says broken XML. But I also don't know which are the characters that
> are not supported by XML.
>
> —Rasmus
Footnotes:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valid_characters_in_XML#XML_1.1
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#charsets
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-13 10:45 Orgmode → ODT: Certain chars break export Tory S. Anderson
2015-02-13 11:04 ` Rasmus
2015-02-13 15:18 ` Tory S. Anderson
2015-02-13 16:07 ` Rasmus
2015-02-13 16:41 ` Tory S. Anderson [this message]
2015-02-14 1:18 ` Rasmus
2015-02-14 8:50 ` Vaidheeswaran
2015-02-14 10:43 ` Vaidheeswaran
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