XML.com: Euro-XML

by Volker Weber

The new European currency, the euro, has a symbol € in Unicode 3.2 as character U+20AC. How can we use it with XML?

There are three ways of representing the euro in XML:

- numeric character references,
- character entity references, and
- direct characters.

This article examines these and other more arcane but important ramifications.

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