How-to: List with restricted symbols when using BVMS OPC Server.

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List with restricted symbols when using BVMS OPC Server.

Answer

BVMS OPC server restricts the use of some symbols in the camera names. We can divide them into 3 groups:
- XML restricted symbols. For the OPC server the device configuration is exported in a XML file. So no reserved XML characters should be used as they will be replaced by blanks when exporting the OPC file. XML restricted characters:
:
&
<
>
"
'
- OPC Specification restricted symbols. OPC Specification restricts the use of:
"
´
`
'
#
- OPC namespace delimiters:
.
,
/