Re: [xml] Recovering from errors in an XML "stream"

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 17:29 -0400, Webb Scales wrote:
> Thanks, Eric -- that's an interesting suggestion.
>
> Does this work for you because the '<' character is not permitted in
> the stream except as the opening of a tag 

This isn’t true in general in XML, so beware.

<invoice emoticon="&lt; whheee > ">
  <?xml-stylesheet href-"foo.xss"?>
  <age>19</age><!--* if age < 16 days do not rebill *-->
  <script><![CDATA[
    if (s < 7 || a[i[j]]> 6) {
      print "this is not in a CDATA section";
    }
  </script>
</invoice>

Liam


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