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Preparing flood configuration file can be a little troublesome.
At the time of writting this manual there are no external tools,
that could aid in this process (although there are plans to
develop those -- see next section). So you have to pick up editor
that has some sort of XML support. For various Unix systems
<span class="application">vi</span> and
<span class="application">emacs</span> seems to be reasonable choices.
You'll get colored syntax, possibly run-time (that is -- as you
type) DTD checking and maybe other switches to help you work with
XML files.
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There are characters that are used by XML markup itself, and you
need a bit of magic when you want to use them as plain text.
Everytime you need such a character, you'll have to reference it
by an XML entity. XML entities start with ampersand (character
'&') and end with semicolon (character ';'). Text between
those character must refer to valid XML entity. Below is a table
that lists all 'reserved' XML characters and their coresponding
XML entities.
</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th align="center">character name</th><th align="center">character glyph</th><th align="center">entity</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center">ampersand</td><td align="center">&</td><td align="center">&amp;</td></tr><tr><td align="center">less than</td><td align="center"><</td><td align="center">&lt;</td></tr><tr><td align="center">greater than</td><td align="center">></td><td align="center">&gt;</td></tr><tr><td align="center">apostrophe</td><td align="center">'</td><td align="center">&apos;</td></tr><tr><td align="center">quotation mark</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">&quot;</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>
If you intend to use international characters in your flood
configuration file, and you don't have Unicode enabled editor,
you'll have to encode those characters. XML has special entity
for including just about any UTF-8 character. Basically it is
&#XXX; for decimal and &#xXXX for hex where XXX is a
Unicode character position. For example, polish letter "small
letter a with ogonek" can be referenced as &#261; (decimal)
or &#x105; (hex) while german umlaut (latin small letter u
with diaeresis) schould be entered as &#252; (decimal) or
&#xFC (hex). If you intend to use a lot of international
characters, you'd better get Unicode enabled text editor, since
number of XML entities will make your flood configuration file
less readable (not to mention typing hassle).
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