RE: [SA-list] delimiters

[J. Gary Thompson]

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Yes, that would help too.

 

J. Gary Thompson

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Bradshaw
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:57 AM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] <sa_xxx> delimiters

XML is peculiar though in what it allows.  It's not so much whether it begins and ends with < and >, but that each tag must either have a closing tag (ie <font> and </font>), or if it has no closing tag then it should have a / at the end of the tag (ie <br/>).  HTML is sloppy, but XML is anal in the extreme.  Maybe to fix this you could change the code to accept <sa_uid/> and such?

Mark Bradshaw
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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:22 AM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] <sa_xxx> delimiters

The point is that these are HTML tags and HTML tags always start with < and end with >

 

dirk.

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Sent: Wed May 28 1:42 AM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] <sa_xxx> delimiters

Well, as I mentioned, it does work, but when using XML editor applications for creating DTD's etc. the doc isn't well-formed and the apps don't like it.  I can live without it, I just wondered if it was possible to change those chars.

 

J. Gary Thompson

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:09 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] <sa_xxx> delimiters

But once SA has used this as a template the <sa_uid> will be replaced by the correct UID, so were is the problem?

 

 

dirk.

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Sent: Wed May 28 1:03 AM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] <sa_xxx> delimiters

In the snippet below, uid="<sa_uid>" will not be allowed in a well-formed document as "<" and ">" are not allowed in an attribute.

 

<host>
    <hostname uid="<sa_uid>" hostid="<sa_hostid>">
         <sa_hostname>                                              <------- this is not well-formed either as it has no closing tag
    </hostname>
    <prettyname>
         <sa_prettyname>
    </prettyname>

    .

    .

    .

</host>

 

I can make this XML document perform the way I want it to, but most XML editors won't work efficiently unless the document is well-formed.

 

thanks

 

J. Gary Thompson

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:50 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] <sa_xxx> delimiters

Could you explain a bit more?  Were do you want to change the < >? 

 

dirk.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of J. Gary Thompson
Sent: Wed May 28 12:39 AM
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Subject: [SA-list] <sa_xxx> delimiters

Hi folks,

 

is there a way of changing the <> (greater and less than) symbols the denote the <sa_xxx> tags used for HTML output?  I can make them work in XML, but it's not considered a well-formed document, and so I can't make any <sa_xxx> data a tag attribute.  The &lt; &gt; encoders don't work either.

 

thanks

 

Gary Thompson