On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Henrik Tougaard wrote:
> I have been trying to test the limits of the nice new XMLSub feature in
> Apache::ASP, and seem to have discovered a bug.
>
> With this simple .asp page I get an error:
>
> <Fiks:test Start="<b>"> </Fiks:test>
> [My XMLSubMatch is set to Fiks:\w+ - the name of the subroutine doesn't
> matter]
>
> It seems as if the '>' in the '<b>' argument confuses the parser.
[snip]
> Is this a (mis)feature or a parser bug?
parser bug - it should have died earlier at the < sign :-)
XML attributes can't contain "<" or "&" characters, or the same quote that
they are surrounded by. The following are the encodings you can use
(and XMLSubsMatch needs to unravel):
< => "<"
> => ">"
& => "&"
" => """
' => "'"
Note that only "<" is needed for your example (since encoding the
">" isn't mandatory in XML generally).
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