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How do we handle special characters, for example in passwords?

Updated 12 Apr, 2020

Kindly make sure that your system can handle a password that contains special characters.

XML escape characters
The following characters have a special meaning for XML: & (ampersand), < (less than), > (greater than), “ (double quote) and ‘ (single quote), and they must be escaped when used as data. This can be done by entity notation or CDATA element.

Invalid: <pw>abcABC<>123</pw>
Valid: <pw>abcABC<>123</pw>
Valid: <pw><![CDATA[abcABC<>123]]></pw>

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