there is no CDATA in xml schema. irritating but true. so no CDATA in soap. base-64 encode or do the escaping. Somwhere in Axis (I forget where), the code to do the escaping exists.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Akacem Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 00:02 Subject: AW: & within a string / parser expects an entity reference Hello James, the information is being in the first place from a html form gathered and saved in a file. so I know there would be no entity reference in the xml file and it would be easier if it is possible to tell the parser not to expect an entity reference otherweise each input in the form musst be filtered. (something similar to #CDATA in DTD's). thanks for any hint Mohammed
