Re: special chars in xml?

2007-09-12 Thread Paul Hastings
James Holmes wrote:
> Quite right - you can't add it as a child tag then?

nope.

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Re: special chars in xml?

2007-09-11 Thread James Holmes
Quite right - you can't add it as a child tag then?

On 9/12/07, Paul Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Watts wrote:
> > You can't use CDATA for attribute values, if I recall correctly.
>
> that appears to be the case.
>
> "xml. what they speak in hell." ;-)
>
> 

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Re: special chars in xml?

2007-09-11 Thread Paul Hastings
Dave Watts wrote:
> You can't use CDATA for attribute values, if I recall correctly.

that appears to be the case.

"xml. what they speak in hell." ;-)

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RE: special chars in xml?

2007-09-11 Thread Dave Watts
> > if i push this sql onto the node's xml attributes
>
> Can you store the clause as CDATA, or is that going to make 
> using it later on too difficult?

You can't use CDATA for attribute values, if I recall correctly.

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Re: special chars in xml?

2007-09-11 Thread James Holmes
Can you store the clause as CDATA, or is that going to make using it
later on too difficult?

On 9/12/07, Paul Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my xml torture continues. i need to squirt an sql where clause wrapped in xml 
> at
> a server, something like:
>
> WHERE a >= 40 AND b < 42
>
> if i push this sql onto the node's xml attributes, cf8's only escaping the 
> last "<",
>
> spatialQuery=xmlElemNew(axl,"SPATIALQUERY");
> spatialQuery.xmlAttributes["where"]="a >= 40 AND b < 42";
> //thanks brianfor the following
> arrayAppend(axl["arcxml"].xmlChildren[1].xmlChildren[1].xmlChildren,spatialQuery);
>
> produces the where clause below which the server chokes on:
>
> where="a >= 40 AND b < 42"
>
> if i follow "good practices" & xmlFormat() the where clause before i stuff it
> into the xml attributes, the "&" part of "<" gets double escaped and the
> server chokes on it:
>
> where="a >= 40 AND b < 42"
>
> not sure if i'm just my usual xml blind or if this is a bug in cf8.



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