RE: Unexpected errors in SAX2 parser Xerces C++ v2.3.0

[Alberto Massari]

At 16.27 19/12/2003 -0600, Curtis Leach wrote:
Interesting,

So to fix my entry, I'd do the following:
<cust_name>CABLE &amp; WIRELESS</cust_name>
But this breaks it into 2 calls to characters()
  startElement (cust_name)
  characters (CABLE , 6)
  characters (& WIRELESS, 10)
  endElement (cust_name)
Is there any way to fix it so it only makes 1 call to characters()?
No; the characters() call is allowed by the SAX specs to be called multiple 
times. This could also occur if you had a text node 100Kb big, as the 
parser works on internal buffers of less than 50Kb...

Also what is the escape sequence for "<" & ">" ?
&gt; and &lt;
When inside attribute values, also " and ' need to be escaped, using &quot; 
and &apos;

Alberto





Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: Alberto Massari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 4:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Unexpected errors in SAX2 parser Xerces C++ v2.3.0
At 15.53 19/12/2003 -0600, Curtis Leach wrote:
>In parsing some XML documents, I'm getting the following SAXParseException
>error when parsing my XML document.
>
>"Expected entity name for reference"
>
>After some research I tracked it down to the following tags.
>     <cust_name>CABLE & WIRELESS</cust_name>
>
>My trace showed:
>    startElement (cust_name)
>    characters (CABLE , 6)
>The exception is thrown by Xercesc before control is returned on the next
>call.
>
>My question is: is the "&" a special char in XML ?  If so, where can I find
>a list of special chars in XML? And how do I escape them so that they are
>allowed in an XML document.
Yes, "&" is a special character (as well as "<" and ">"); it needs to be
escaped using the string "&amp;"
Alberto



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