> From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Henrik Tougaard wrote:
> > 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).
>
Well this does limit the usefullness of the XMLSubs feature.
I had hoped that it would be possbile to use any perl expression in
the attributes - as an easy way of giving arguments to the perl-sub.
Pity....
--
Henrik
