Re: [Jprogramming] Ampersands in XML - bug in sax?

[John Randall]

Devon McCormick wrote:
> Members of the Forum -
>
> does anyone else have experience processing XML using the "sax" add-on?  I
> recently discovered that a tag like this:
>
> <LegalName>JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.</LegalName>
>
> gives me the value " Co." instead of the full name "JPMorgan Chase & Co.".
>
> The problem seems to be the ampersand character in "&amp;".  If I replace
> this string by "&", "&amp", or "&ampersand;", I get assertion
> errors "not well-formed (invalid token)" for the first two cases and
> "undefined entity" for the third.  Replacing it with "amp;" gives no error
> and I get the full name "JPMorgan Chase amp; Co.".


This is actually legal but extremely annoying.  See

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/12/05/sax2.html

tip #2.

Best wishes,

John


----------------------------------------------------------------------
For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm