I’m not appending a text node with a
“<” in it – I’m reading XML from a file, putting it
into a string (using the membuf) and sending it across a network connection.
Leaving the “<” in the XML causes the parser to fail on the “parse”
call, saying “element expected” (it thinks I’m starting a new
element with the “<”). Any ideas?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Pelton
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:50
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Subject: RE: Less-than reserved
character sanity check...
If you append a text node
(or set an attribute, depending on where you're storing you field data) with a
value like "1 < 3" and use DOMWriter to serialize, what happens? A
snippet of your code and a sample of your output would probably be
helpful.
From: Styduhar, Chris
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:44
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Subject: RE: Less-than reserved
character sanity check...
Opening the file in
XMLSpy (or any other viewer) generally causes an error though. I am using
the DOMWriter but I can’t save the XML file (and it won’t validate)
with that “<” in the character data.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Pelton
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:32
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Subject: RE: Less-than reserved
character sanity check...
Assuming
you're letting Xerces do the serialization (by using DOMWriter, for instance),
just include '<' in your character data. Xerces translates characters into
the corresponding character entities as needed.
From: Styduhar, Chris
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:16
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Less-than reserved
character sanity check...
I have an XML file which needs to
have a “<” (less than) character in a data field. I have
put the less-than character in the XML as “<” which is how
I’ve always done it. However – after Xerces parses the
document, the string is transformed into “lt;”… and the rest
of my software doesn’t handle that. Have I lost my mind? How
am I supposed to encode greater than and less than symbols?
Thanks,
Chris
