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RE: CDATA strangeness

• To: "Ramin Firoozye" <ramin@w...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: CDATA strangeness
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:50:47 -0700
• Thread-index: AcI9aPKN5r5/lJPnSYKs/xvsMDa9DwAAFA8P
• Thread-topic: CDATA strangeness

Instead of tweaking tidy or Xerces-C why not just perform a simple search and replace by hand or programmatically (*cough* Perl *cough*). 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Ramin Firoozye [mailto:ramin@w...] 
	Sent: Tue 8/6/2002 9:44 AM 
	To: xml-dev@l... 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE:  CDATA strangeness
	
	

	This comes from an HTML-only site. They don't claim it's XML, but we're
	trying to load it in as an XML tree. The problem is when you pass the
	snippet through Tidy and Xerces-C, it barfs royally, saying there's a
	missing CDATA where it sees the '<![if' string.
	
	Very strange. I thought I'd pose it out here to see if anyone else had seen
	similar things, or if I had misread the spec. So far, I've heard 3-4
	conflicting opinions on whether this is legal XML or not.
	
	S'ok. Looks like we're going to tweak tidy and/or Xalan-C. We can't really
	have breakage on stuff like this and asking the site to change is like
	asking an elephant to quit hogging the dance floor.
	
	Others using the Tidy/Xalan-C combo might want to keep an eye out for it.
	
	Best,
	Ramin
	
	>
	> At 2:45 PM -0700 8/5/02, Ramin Firoozye wrote:
	>
	> >There's a fairly well-known web-site that returns:
	> >
	> ><!--[if IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=1;</script><![endif]-->
	> ><![if !IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=0;</script><![endif]>
	> >...
	>
	> This is not well-formed XML, not even close. The problem is the <!
	> outside the comment. If the site claims this is XML, then the site is
	> wrong. However, possibly the site is only serving HTML, not XML or
	> XHTML.
	> --
	>
	
	
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