The following items should be noted about creating adaptor definition files.

• Specify adaptor definition files in the XML1.0 format. For the specifications for this format, see the XML specifications by W3C (Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0).
• Any special characters (symbols) you use in adaptor definition files must be sanitized. The table below shows the replacement character strings for special characters that must be sanitized:
  

  Special character that must be sanitized	Replacement character string
  <	&lt;
  >	&gt;
  &	&amp;
  "	&quot;
  '	&apos; or &#39;