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Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e better off as a crossing guard
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:10:19 -0500
• References: <r01050400-1024-0BEAFA4F63AD11D7B1500003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

> >Couldn't you just run it through Perl's XML::Parser or equivalent?  
> 
> I don't think so, unless XML::Parser has added functionality way beyond
> expat's core - which tells me a CDATA section is starting or ending but
> doesn't let me scream "IGNORE THAT CDATA SECTION MARKER AND PARSE THE
> DAMN CONTENT NORMALLY!" 

Are you saying that in Expat the characterDataHandler reports the strings
"><![CDATA[" and "]]>" for a CDATA section? That should not happen unless
you are using an old version of Expat. But even then I believe that setting
a CDATASectionHandler should suppress that.

Karl

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