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Should I use numeric character references to represent characters greater than ASCII 127 in my OAI-PMH responses?

April 26, 2017ASCII character characters greater numeric oai-pmh references

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Should I use numeric character references to represent characters greater than ASCII 127 in my OAI-PMH responses?

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The XML documents carried by the OAI-PMH are exchanged as a byte stream of UTF-8 characters. Therefore, although numeric character references may be used, they are not required (other than for & and < as described above). In general, the use of numeric character references is not recommended.