Kamal Bhatt wrote:
In your input, change "<" to < and ">" to > .
You cannot use < and > in XML data (unless it is enclosed in CDATA
"tags"). Actually, you probably could use < in some circumstances, but
it is best to play it safe.
No, the < can never be used unless inside CDATA. But you can use the >
safely without escaping. There are only two entities that must always be
escaped: < and &. The other default entities, >, " and
' sometimes do and sometimes don't need to be used:
<!-- valid xml -->
<input value=" ' " />
<input>>>></input>
<input value=">>>" />
<input value=' " ' />
(to take this to an extreme, note that the string ]]> cannot be used
inside CDATA... or... outside CDATA. but all the rest: np)
but the OP had < in an attribute and like you said: that is illegal. In
addition, there also appeared a " in the attribute and without changing
the surrounding quotes, it should be escaped. The attribute equals the
XML declaration string. I think the OP does not want valid XML like this
(note the quote change):
<pfarr name='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>'>
but like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<pfarr name="xyz">
<pfarr name="dls">
which, interestingly, is precisely the way the XML looked in a post by
the same person, at 6 feb 2007 about multiple sorts on element
attributes. My guess is, that somehow the source got tangled during
these months... ;)
Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
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