The OP hasn't said exactly, but it sounds to me like the other subsystem is
some sort of interface that lets users input whatever they like into the XML.
Since they can input anything from their keyboard, they occasionally input
stuff like "&" which of course doesn't parse.
In any case, what Mike said is still correct. The XSLT process that
transforms this XML doesn't need to force a CDATA marked section wrapper,
because the serializer will do any necessary escaping. That is, if the
problem is in the other subsystem, forcing CDATA in this one will guarantee
nothing. The real solution is to fix the other subsystem so it converts
disallowed characters into their allowed representations, or does a CDATA
wrapping of its own as a poor-man's version of the same.
So I'm guessing the the problem is not in a parser, but rather in a tool (a
UI or something, maybe just a text editor) that allows users to input
malformed data and doesn't correct it for them before passing it over. A
compliant parser is part of the fix; but we don't know that that the
offending subsystem uses a parser at all.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 11:21 AM 1/12/2005, it was written:
> No the other Sub system does not use XSLT
The point they are trying to make is that provided the other 'Sub
system' is a compiant XML parser, then anything produced by a transform
using the xml output method should parse ok.
If the parsing is failing at the other end, then it's a problem with the
parser and a fix should be applied there rather than bodging your output
to a work around the non-comformity.
What characters made the parsing at the other end fail? It could be
that you are mis-using disable-output-escaping?
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