Re: [xml] how-to ignore entities in text?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

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 <liam holoweb net>
> To: Michael Cronenworth <mike cchtml com>
> Date: 04/22/2009 11:15 AM
>
> > No, you need to escape it, e.g. &#38; or &amp;
> > Similarly for < (&lt;)
> >
> > 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

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