Thanks guys. I did try the XmlFormat function (without the additional
rereplace stuff) and it still didn't work. I'll let you know shortly if the
CDATA works, that's what I'll try next. If THAT doesn't work, I'll try the
rereplace method S. Isaac suggested.
-- Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Bad character crashing cfxml
>> I opt to store user-defined data in CDATA blocks:
>
>> <root>
>> <mytag><![CDATA[#userDefinedStuff#]]></mytag>
>> </root>
>
>> Another route is to use the XMLFormat() function.
>
> Unfortunately the XMLFormat() function doesn't handle non-printing
> characters. I believe the character 0x1C or "1C" is ASCII character
> 27, with characters 1-30 being non-printing. All the non-printing
> characters with the exception of carriage return (13) line feed (10)
> and space (20?) are invalid in an XML document.
>
> I'm not sure if the CDATA segment will allow you to use these
> characters or if XML simply expects you to find your own method of
> handling them that conforms to the standard of not including
> non-printing characters. I'm reasonably certain that it rejects the
> entities ( for example would technically be the ASCII beep code)
> and since that would prevent their use in attributes, my guess would
> be they are also not allowed in CDATA segments.
>
> This is all guess-work on my part, I haven't memorized the spec or
> anything. :)
>
> That being the case, when I found vertical tabs in some of my data
> which needed to be embedded in XML documents, I created a wrapper
> function for the native XMLFormat() function which removes all
> non-printing characters except 13, 10 and the space.
>
> Here is the code I used to accomplish this task (sorry for the
> line-wrap):
>
> function xmlstring(mystring) {
> // remove any non-printing characters
> // with the exception of tabs and line-breaks
> mystring = rereplace(mystring,"[#chr(1)#-#chr(8)##chr(11)#-#chr(12)#
> #chr(14)#-#chr(31)#]","","ALL");
> // replace the single-quote character with
> // the character-code entity the xml parser
> // in early versions of ColdFusion MX doesn't
> // understand the ' entity
> return replacenocase(xmlformat(mystring),"'","&##39;","ALL");
> }
>
> hth
>
>
> s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201
> new epoch : isn't it time for a change?
>
> add features without fixtures with
> the onTap open source framework
>
> http://www.fusiontap.com
> http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm
>
>
>
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