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RE: CDATA strangeness

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: CDATA strangeness
• From: "Ramin Firoozye" <ramin@w...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:38:47 -0700
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E06621ECA@r...>

Heh. We actually do a *lot* of that sort of thing already (and in Visual-C++ (:-)

But every time we do that, it slows things down a notch more and the code becomes more unreadable and in the words of Bugs Bunny, frah-jee-lee. I guess it's a matter of where you want your point of pain.

Cheers,
Ramin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: Ramin Firoozye; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  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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