thanks. ughh! 10 years old. oh boy. Garyc
--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] XML parsing on twisted > To: "Twisted general discussion" <twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com> > Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 5:42 PM > 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 > _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
