Assume we have a schema with separator=", %NL;"
and escapeCharacter="\"

and the following data:

  abc,de\CRLFfg,hij

Where CRLF is the windows-style line ending.

How does the escape character escape the CRLF?

One interpretation is that the the escape character only escapes the

following character, which means CRLF will not match %NL;, but the LF

does. So you might end up with a infoset like this:

<seq>

  <e>abc</e>

  <e>deCR</e>

  <e>fg</e>

  <e>hij</e>

</seq>

Alternatively, one might think the escape character should escape the

entire CRLF, so the resulting infoset might look like this:

<seq>

  <e>abc</e>

  <e>deCRLFfg</e>

  <e>hij</e>

</seq>

More generally, what happens when one separator is a suffix of another.

For example:

separator="XXYY YY" escapeCharacter="\"

data: abc,de\XXYYfg,hij

Does the escape character escape the entire XXYY, and YY is not

considered as a delimiter? Does this change at all if a separator is

also a prefix of another, e.g. separator="XXYY XX YY", which
is very

similar to %NL;?

- Steve

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