sara(_dot_)mitchell(_at_)ps(_dot_)ge(_dot_)com wrote:
The JSP directive:
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<%
String block = "work";
%>
is not well-formed XML. The XML parser expects
that anything beginning with < represents
XML markup. (Note: parsers don't compile
XML, they parse it.)
To make it well-formed, you need to have the
JSP directive inside a CDATA marked section
like this:
<![CDATA[<%
String block = "work";
%>]]>
And to answer the inevitable next question, CDATA sections are lexical fluff,
so the document author might as well just write
<%
String block = "work";
%>
Either way, they have to use either
1. directly serialized XML or HTML output mode, with
disable-output-escaping (if supported at all); or
2. text output mode, after having assembled the entire document
as nothing but text nodes containing pseudo-markup like this.
Personally, I would instead use XML output mode and make elements that will be
serialized in JSP's XML syntax, or maybe I'd emit processing instructions and
run the serialized output through a regex filter to replace the PIs with the
appropriate tags.
- Mike
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