Re: [O] Orgmode → ODT: Certain chars break export

[Tory S. Anderson]

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 <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (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