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

It depends really. If all you want to do is have quotes in your XML string, then 'A'.

But if there is meaning or you need to abstract the quote (i18n for example), XML affords richer options. For example:

  Jesse
  Ventura
  the Body

Overkill in many situations. But if you need to correctly handle many of the world's varied - and frequently inconsistent - naming schemes, I'd think about encoding your names along these lines. XML is great for this.