At 07:08 PM 6/4/2010, you wrote:
Is there a book that explains where and how and when to do the string
manipulation programmatically on incoming data necessary to allow it to have
the illegal entities changed to legal ones? I am the owner of several xml
and xsl books that don't seem to cover that part of the process.
Strictly speaking the question (indeed the entire thread) is off-topic.
I believe the person was trying to help me out by that question. The object of
my original post was to get a way to use the "&" character as regular text in
an xml file. And I think by her wording she was trying to interface with the
high minded pros on this list to get a relavent solution to my first post.
But it is both simple and complicated -- probably why there's no
treatment of it in a book. The simple version of it is too simple to
need it. The complicated version is both too deep and too general to
be much use to a working programmer who has a specific set of issues.
Situation: for non-programmers copying and pasting text with "&" characters.
The complex answer accounts for how some characters aren't allowed in
XML, so they need to be scrubbed or changed into something else
(these are mainly control characters you won't ordinarily see), and
how certain constructs (namely, entity references) will be legal if
you have declarations for them....
So what is the code?
The simple answer is that, if these complications don't intervene,
simply escaping all "&" into "&" and "<" into "<" should do
the trick....
Cheers,
Wendell
No thanks. Think about your Grandma's carpal tunnel syndrome or Stephen
Hawking's ALS disease.
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