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Re: [xsl] Saxon errors

2007-05-10 08:50:49
Thanks all for the feedback. Yes - I think the source code that generates the XML (and the XML declaration) is getting messed up. Sorry about the 'Saxon errors' subject line - Michael is correct in that it is not Saxon that is causing the errors, but what I am feeding it.

Regards,
- Rob

On May 10, 2007, at 2:15 AM, Abel Braaksma wrote:

Kamal Bhatt wrote:
In your input, change "<" to &lt; and ">" to &gt; .

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: &lt; and &amp;. The other default entities, &gt;, &quot; and &apos; 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='&lt;?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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