Hi, 2009/10/4 gary clark <burslem2...@yahoo.com>: > Hello, > > I went to use the SAX library to perform parsing. However I hit an unusual > problem. > > Its having a problem parsing a token that has a '&' it just crashes. It > certainly woke me up when I witnessed this. > > <books> Jim & Nancy </books> > > are passed to the ContentHandler class. When characters(self,chars) member > gets called I perform self.book+=chars to reassemble the string. > > I dump out the self.book string as its being assembled. If I replace the '&' > character with "and" then its Ok. Of course I dont want to have to replace > '&' with 'and'. > > Not good. So has anybody else seen this problem. I'm assuming it thinks its a > reference and becomes confused when I attempt to add a reference. > > Much appreciated,
the & character is a special character in XML. You are parsing an invalid XML string. This page says it well: http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/14068 (a 10 years old "tip of the day"!) -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
