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The forward slash is valid as is and does not need further encoding.

The only reserved characters are:

>
<
&
%

For even more XML entities - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

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The forward slash is valid as is and does not need further encoding.

The only reserved characters are:

>
<
&
%

For even more XML entities - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

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I don't think the comments in this thread are entirely correct since if you use a schema (XSD) you could define elements with names Jim, Bob and Jim/Bob without any issues. But then when you want to define the element and entity:

<names>
  <Jim>Carrey</Jim>
  <Bob>Jones</Bob>
  <Jim/Bob>Six figured Hillbilly</Jim/Bob>
</names>

The problems are obvious.

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Is forward slash / a reserverd character? (XML forum at Coderanch)

In case someone is interested, here are some examples of how you post stuff with special characters etc: UBB blocks: [CODE]foobar[/CODE] is written as [CODE]foobar[/CODE] XML/HTML snippets: <xml version="1.0"?> is written as <xml version="1.0"?>

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July 23, 2025 - In this approach, we are using the replace() method with a regular expression to search for characters <, >, ", ', and & in the XML data and replace them with their respective XML entities (<, >, ", ', &). Example: The below example uses the replace() method to escape characters in XML.

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Support #6190: Forward slash escaped when using xml-to-json function - Saxon - Saxonica Developer Community - Saxon - Saxonica Developer Community - Saxon - Saxonica Developer Community

As a workaround, where you do xml-to-json($json), you can use xml-to-json($json) => parse-json() => serialize(map{ 'method' : 'json', 'use-character-maps' : map { '/' : '/' } }) instead. Kind of convoluted and I am only suggesting that as a possible workaround if you want a JSON output without the solidus/forwards slash being escaped,to move on with your code.

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XML Character Entities and XAML - XAML | Microsoft Learn

December 16, 2025 - XAML uses character entities defined in XML for special characters. This topic describes some specific character entities and general considerations for other XML concepts in XAML. XAML markup typically uses the same character entities and escape sequences that are defined in XML.

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XML syntax is similar to HTML.

Inside the tag delimiters, start-tags ... element type name and end with a '/' (forward slash). The example in the textbook illustrates all three types of tags, e.g., start-tag "<HEAD>", end-tag "</HEAD>", and empty-tag "<BR/>". XML requires proper nesting....

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XML escape characters

There are only five:

"   &quot;
'   &apos;
<   &lt;
>   &gt;
&   &amp;

Escaping characters depends on where the special character is used.

The examples can be validated at the W3C Markup Validation Service.

Text

The safe way is to escape all five characters in text. However, the three characters ", ' and > needn't be escaped in text:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<valid>"'></valid>

Attributes

The safe way is to escape all five characters in attributes. However, the > character needn't be escaped in attributes:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<valid attribute=">"/>

The ' character needn't be escaped in attributes if the quotes are ":

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<valid attribute="'"/>

Likewise, the " needn't be escaped in attributes if the quotes are ':

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<valid attribute='"'/>

Comments

All five special characters must not be escaped in comments:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<valid>
<!-- "'<>& -->
</valid>

CDATA

All five special characters must not be escaped in CDATA sections:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<valid>
<![CDATA["'<>&]]>
</valid>

Processing instructions

All five special characters must not be escaped in XML processing instructions:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?process <"'&> ?>
<valid/>

XML vs. HTML

HTML has its own set of escape codes which cover a lot more characters.

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Simplified XML Escaping ^{(prioritized, 100% complete)}

Always ^{(90% important to remember)}
- Escape < as < unless < is starting a <tag/> or other markup.
- Escape & as & unless & is starting an &entity;.
Attribute Values ^{(9% important to remember)}
- attr=" 'Single quotes' are ok within double quotes."
- attr=' "Double quotes" are ok within single quotes.'
- Escape " as " and ' as ' otherwise.
Comments, CDATA, and Processing Instructions ^{(0.9% important to remember)}
-  nothing has to be escaped but no -- strings are allowed.
- <![CDATA[ Within CDATA ]]> nothing has to be escaped, but no ]]> strings are allowed.
- <?PITarget Within PIs ?> nothing has to be escaped, but no ?> strings are allowed.
Esoterica ^{(0.1% important to remember)}
- Escape control codes in XML 1.1 via Base64 or Numeric Character References.
- Escape ]]> as ]]> unless ]]> is ending a CDATA section.
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Escaping XML Data Adding control characters ('<', '>', ''', '"', '&') into xml data can cause the parser to miss understand the resulting data. The solution is to escape the control characters so that the parser can interpret them correc

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For example, if you add an existing XML file or create a new one in your project and insert a special XML character in one of its elements, let's say < character, when you will build the project, Advanced Installer will automatically escape this character, replacing it with <. The result is that the XML document installed by the built package will contain the escaped character making possible the correct interpretation of the XML code.

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August 30, 2006 - Hi, I wonder how I encode a forward slash in xml. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?> <Colors> <Color>black/white</Color> </Colors> Thanks in advance! Zero AI Policy · We believe in human intelligence. Our moderation policy strictly prohibits the use of LLM content in our Q&A threads. Gertone (Geert Bormans)🇧🇪 · Hi risj, no need to escape "/" in character content the XML snippet you posted is wellformed Cheers!

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XML escape characters

Text

Attributes

Comments

CDATA

Processing instructions

XML vs. HTML

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