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RE: A simple guy with a simple problem

• From: Sean McGrath <sean@d...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:38:41 +0000

Len,

This is a troll right? You know darned well that I can
construct any number of XML documents that are
both well formed and valid that will get messed
up real bad by a simple search/replace.

Sean

At 10:28 AM 3/14/01 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Well, Bob, just open them up in PFE and select Replace
>then type the right stuff in the right text box.  Hit
>Return.
>
>Too simple?  Ok, I'll record a macro to put the stuff
>in the right boxes.
>
>Still too simple?  But it works... whine....
>
>Len
>http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
>
>Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
>Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean@d...]
>
>Hello, my name is Bob and I'm a programmer.
>
>I work for a B2B company. My task today is to process
>incoming XML documents that are known to be valid against the foo
>DTD and change all occurences of the word "STUFF" to "stuff".
>
>I need to leave the documents otherwise unchanged in all material
>respects as they are going on to a third company in a B2B chain.
>
>Here is the DTD:
>          <!ELEMENT foo (lit)*>
>          <!ELEMENT lit (#PCDATA)>
>          <!ATTLIST lit text CDATA "STUFF">
>
>Here is a sample document:
>
>          <?foo bar?>
>          <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "foo.dtd" [
>          <!ENTITY bar "this is some STUFF">
>          ]>
>
>          <foo>
>          <lit text="hello">
>          <![CDATA[This is literal
>          STUFF]]>
>          </lit>
>          <lit>
>          &bar;
>          </lit>
>          </foo>
>
>How should I proceed to do my job?
>regards,
>Bob
>
>Alter-ego for:
>
>Sean McGrath CTO
>Propylon
>Enabling Universal Mobility
>http://www.propylon.com
>
>
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Enabling Universal Mobility
http://www.propylon.com

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