On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Michael Cronenworth <[email protected]>wrote:
> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [xml] how-to ignore entities in text? > From: Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> > To: Michael Cronenworth <[email protected]> > Date: 04/22/2009 11:15 AM > > >> No, you need to escape it, e.g. & or & >> Similarly for < (<) >> >> An XML processor is not allowed to claim that a file >> with errors in it like this is XML. >> >> Liam >> >> > Yes, that was my understanding, but the XML I have received (business) > contains bad "&" characters inside of XML tags. I guess I will argue to get > them changed. Thanks! > If they don't want to escape entities ask them to at least use a CDATA section for the password: <password><![CDATA[e$az_3{&dpp]]></password> Point them to wikipedia for more details (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA). -- Emmanuel Rodriguez
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