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tbray@t... (Tim Bray) writes: >> I'm currently writing code for selectively inserting and removing >> CDATA sections from documents, largely because a a certain >> data-centric piece of software insists on adding them any time I try >> to use markup in its fields. It is an exercise in silliness, but >> sometimes that silliness comes from the data side. > >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!" I'm in the classically stupid position where the export is generating: <root> ... <repeatingNode1><![CDATA[This is in <b>bold</b>, or at least it should be.]]></repeatingNode1> <repeatingNode2>content</repeatingNode2> .... </root> and what I actually want is: <root> ... <repeatingNode1>This is in <b>bold</b>, or at least it should be.</repeatingNode1> <repeatingNode2>content</repeatingNode2> .... </root> More creatively, there may also be times where the use of CDATA sections is appropriate, so simply nuking all of them isn't the right answer either. Fixing these kinds of things takes a bit of work, which is what I'm doing at the moment. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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