Is there a way besides wrapping each column with CDATA to tell cocoon or the xml parser NOT to parse the ELEMENTS defined in the XML ? All our data comes from the database and some of the columns at times may have the special characters (e.g. & < >) so in order to resolve this issue we wrap the data within the <!CDATA[ ]]> tag. This however makes the XML string MUCH larger than it needs to be because wrapping every column multipled by the number of rows produces alot of extra text. My thought was to build a DTD for the data coming back from the database telling the parser NOT to parse the content by defining the ELEMENT as a CDATA type or some type that will allow these characters. Unfortunately CDATA cannot be used for ELEMENTs. Question ----------- <!DOCTYPE DATA [ <!ELEMENT DATA ANY > ---> Produces error because of & ]> <DATA> GRENADA C&W </DATA> <!DOCTYPE DATA [ <!ELEMENT DATA ???? > ]> <DATA> GRENADA C&W </DATA> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
