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I think I'm with you now. I misunderstood the original
message. You've got a file that includes a left angle bracket in character data,
which you've encoded as the character entity "<". You use Xerces to parse
the file, and the ampersand gets lost at some point. I should have suggested the
following in the first place:
- Try to reproduce the problem with DOMPrint and a simple
file.
- If you can reproduce it, send the file to the list as an
attachment.
- Tell us your environment (Xerces version, OS, compiler,
etc).
- If you can't reproduce it, there's a bug somewhere in
your code, which we may or may not be able to help with.
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:50
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To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:44
PM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:32
PM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:16
PM
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
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