Re: RE : [xml] Parsing invalid characters or entities ref

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:42:15AM +0100, Morus Walter wrote:
> Daniel Veillard writes:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:11:37AM +0100, GARNIER Pierre wrote:
> > > In fact I was asking myself about the opportuneness to give the possibility
> > > in the apis (as an option) to replace invalid characters - where it is
> > > possible - by a given replacement character and so to continue parsing.
> >
> >   Well, clearly this violates the behaviour stated by the XML spec.
> > So I don't think it's proper to add this for any kind of general processing.
> Couldn't he just use the io layer to do some prefiltering?
> That would remove the problem before the parser sees it.

  or the encoding layer, yes that would be 2 possibilities. But in the
face of broken XML the right thing to do 99% of the time it to yell
at whoever provided something broken so that they fix the problem on
their side.

Daniel

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