> I'm running CFMX 6.1 with the latest cumulative update from
> Macromedia (we installed the updater patch about a month
> ago). Recently, we've hit a problem with parsexml() that I
> cannot figure out. It seems to choke on certain entity
> references, but not all of them. I've got some test code to
> illuminate the problem:
>
> These work (just a few examples):
> <cfset parsedXml = xmlParse("<rootnode>&</rootnode>")>
> <cfset parsedXml = xmlParse("<rootnode><</rootnode>")>
> <cfset parsedXml = xmlParse("<rootnode>></rootnode>")>
>
> These bomb (again, just a few examples):
> <cfset parsedXml = xmlParse("<rootnode> </rootnode>")>
> <cfset parsedXml = xmlParse("<rootnode>—</rootnode>")>
> <cfset parsedXml = xmlParse("<rootnode>£</rootnode>")>
>
> I've searched the web and have found precious little
> information about this. I suppose it could be related to the
> cumulative updater, but that somehow seems unlikely.
The first three are valid XML entities. There are only five built-in XML
entities - the three you have, plus """ and "'". The second three
are not, unless you've defined them within a DTD somewhere (which you
haven't in this example). Even if you do define them within a DTD, I don't
know how CF's XML parser will deal with that.
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