On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:21:33AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [xml] how-to ignore entities in text? > From: Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> > To: Michael Cronenworth <[email protected]> > Date: 04/22/2009 11:15 AM > >> >> No, you need to escape it, e.g. & or & >> Similarly for < (<) >> >> An XML processor is not allowed to claim that a file >> with errors in it like this is XML. >> >> Liam >> > > Yes, that was my understanding, but the XML I have received (business) > contains bad "&" characters inside of XML tags. I guess I will argue to > get them changed. Thanks!
Tell them it's not XML and no XML parser should ever accept to parse it, the spec is cristal clear, they must escape ! They sent you rubbish! Even the CDATA trick doesn't work in the absolute because the terminating sequences ]]> could perfectly be the result of a password hash. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
