What's the accepted way of storing quoted data in XML?

Question

What\'s the accepted way of storing quoted data in XML?

For example, for a node, which is correct?

• (a) Jesse \"The Body\" Ventura

Answer 1

You shouldn't worry about how things are encoded in your XML. You should always use a proper library for generating XML documents. There's too many gotcha's to XML to get it right by yourself. I've seen tons of invalid XML documents come my way because somebody thought they could generate proper XML themselves, without using a library. All major programming languages in use today have XML libraries.