XML by Example

<company>Mark &amp; Spencer</company>

XML also supports character references where a letter is replaced by its

Unicode character code. For example, if your keyboard does not support

accentuated letters, you can still write my name in XML as:

<name>Beno&#238;t Marchal</name>

Character references that start with &#x provides a hexadecimal represen-

tation of the character code. Character references that start with &#

provide a decimal representation of the character code.

TIP

Under Windows, to find the character code of most characters, you can use the

Character Map. The character code appears in the status bar (see Figure 2.2).

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