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RE: escaping characters

• From: James Gray <james.gray@b...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:34:56 -0800

The parser is giving me a generic error -- nothing specific
enough to debug.  If the ':' is special, how would I escape
it?  Different parsers escape certain characters differently,
correct?



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[mailto:xml-dev-errors@l...]On Behalf Of Mike Brown
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:33 AM
To: 'James Gray'
Cc: 'xml-dev@l...'
Subject: RE: escaping characters


> My parser is choking on a document, which has a ':' in it.  Can I 
> count out the problem being because of the ':'?

Colons can be special. If the parser is namespace aware (most are), ':' in
the name of an element follows a prefix that must be bound to a URI via an
xmlns:foo attribute on an ancestor-or-self element. Could that be your
problem? Perhaps put your XML at a URL somewhere and point us to it. What
exactly is the parser saying?

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