Important notes XML

XML file encoding

In XML files sent to a VIP only ASCII characters are allowed. Special characters must be quoted (see table below for examples). It is not allowed to specify any character encoding in the XML file.

Special characters in XML files

Some character entities can’t be written directly in XML files. Instead, they need to be quoted. Below is a table of the most common special characters.

Character	Written as
&	&
>	>
<	&lt;
"	&quot;

All characters with ASCII code greater than 127 also needs to be quoted. These characters shall be quoted in the form &#x<code>; where <code> is the hexadecimal value of the character.