Re: [xml] Multiple CDATA blocks

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:13:17PM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:45 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:35:07PM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > So basically, yea I know that you people are going to slaughter me using
> > > an axe after tearing of my fingernails one by one and worst of all
> > > really really going to hate me for using this older libraries.
> >
> >   No it's even simpler than that, I don't want to hear about it.
>
> Okay :-)
>
> Since the older gnome-xml isn't parsing it correctly for me, I assume
> that I can't do much about it.

  Yup, tweaking the input is the simplest

> So in stead of letting libxml-2 handle the situation of a "]]>" in my
> CDATA-body by creating two such blocks, I decided to replace it with 
>
>       "]]>"


  Hum ... Since what you are embedding in the CDATA section is XML
with a CDATA section, I don't think you can do that without some
escaping. That's one way to do it.

> > > Could it be that this is behaviour of libxml-2 when in my data, the
> > > string "]]>" is found?
>
> >   Yes that's the usual way to proceed, e.g.
> >     http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-XML-Output-Method
> > see the paragraphs suggesting this.
>
> For now I've created a small check-data for "]]>" at the writer side and
> a "undo-that-check"-type of function at the reader-side:

  yup.

> This solves my problem for now, nevertheless I am open for better
> suggestions from the mailinglist of course. Lucky me we have all the
> memory and cpu-power we want, I'd dislike using this for high-
> performance situations :-\

  You could also use another simpilar escaping like turning one
of the ] into ] but I don't see how to avoid escaping.

Daniel

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