Re: Novice - Problem with data encoding

[Chris Pizzo]

Thats what is wierd.  I don't do any escaping.  I think it might be embperl
doing the escaping because if I do a print of the XML doc string it has no
escaping.  If I put the string between [+ $content +] then it gets escaped.

Thanks for your help,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antti Haapala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chris Pizzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: Novice - Problem with data encoding


>
> > I have an XML doc that I generated using XML::LibXML that needs to be
> > included as a hidden form field in a form post.
> >
> > The problem is that the browser is encoding the XML doc.
> >
> > ie.
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE gtfd SYSTEM "http://gftd/schemas/data.dtd";>
> >
> > turns into:
> > &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
> > &lt;DOCTYPE gtfd SYSTEM &quot;http://gftd/schemas/data.dtd&quot;&gt;
> >
> > which blows up in the parsing.  If I edit the result and swap back the <
> > and " it works. How can I prevent the encoding of the XML data?
>
> You have probably escaped the xml snippet twice yourself - check the code
> of the page from your browser. If you see the value of your hidden field
> as "&amp;lt;?xml...", you have done double escaping.
>
> Just remove one of the escaping passes and it should work.
>
> The browser isn't supposed to do any such encoding on its own. If it does
> you need to change your browser. You aren't using Netscape 4.0, are you?
>
> --
> Antti Haapala
>
>