This section describes the UMF implementation of XML formatting and rules. XML is a tagged data format that is becoming a widely accepted format for transferring data between systems. There are also many tools available to source system programmers that facilitate the process of creating and parsing XML messages.
UMF includes a special set of characters that cannot be used in UMF tags. These special characters must be replaced with UMF escape sequences. The table below lists the special characters and their equivalent UMF escape sequences.
Special character | UMF escape sequences |
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ampersand (&) | & |
less than (<) | < |
greater than (>) | > |
single quote (') | ' |
double quote (") | " |
Incorrect UMF tag value without UMF escape sequence | Correct UMF tag value with UMF escape sequence |
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<COMPANY_NAME>IBM & Company<COMPANY_NAME> |
<COMPANY_NAME>IBM & Company<COMPANY_NAME> |