Re: DOM Serializer and escaping

[Michael Glavassevich]

Joseph Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/05/2004 11:27:41 AM:

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> The > character does not really need to be escaped, since there's no
> situation in which it can be misintepreted.

There is one case where it could be misinterpreted. Xerces now always escapes the '>' character in content because the literal ']]>' (which is also the end delimeter for a CDATA section) is not allowed to appear in character data [1] and also because the serializer doesn't keep track of what the previous characters serialized were.

> The ' character does not need to be escaped when it appears inside a string
> delimited by ".
>
>
> I suspect the effect of changing JVMs is that you're changing which version
> of Xerces you're picking up, since later JVMs carried Xerces inside them. I
> know the Xalan FAQ has a discussion of how to override the Apache code
> packaged with the JVM; I presume the Xerces FAQ has similar advice.
>
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-CharData

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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