Re: xml parsing escape characters

[Kent Johnson]

Luis P. Mendes wrote:
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this is the xml document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://www......";>&lt;DataSet&gt;
~   &lt;Order&gt;
~     &lt;Customer&gt;439&lt;/Customer&gt;
    (... others ...)
~   &lt;/Order&gt;
&lt;/DataSet&gt;</string>
This is an XML document containing a single tag, <string>, whose content is text containing 
entity-escaped XML.

This is *not* an XML document containing tags <DataSet>, <Order>, <Customer>, 
etc.
All the behaviour you are seeing is a consequence of this. You need to unescape the contents of the 
<string> tag to be able to treat it as structured XML.

Kent
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