vcard DTD

David Brownell db at Eng.Sun.COM
Sun Nov 8 23:19:24 GMT 1998


"Mark D. Anderson" wrote:
> 
> nor what happens when the value is actually kept in a vCard "VALUE" parameter,
> nor what they do with "<" or "&" in a vCard value or parameter.

So what's the issue here?  Dave Winer mentioned a similar issue
that forced him to encode some text in "base64" ...

Are XML-emitting tools just being incorrect?  "<" in text should
always be encoded as "&lt;" (it'll be un-encoded during parsing),
and "&" as "&amp;" (ditto).

- Dave

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