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Hi, I have an XML which is similar to: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE TestData [<!ENTITY var1 '<![CDATA[testvalue]]>'>]> <TestData> <Holder> <MyText target="http://www.yahoo.com?aa=&var1;">Text Source</MyText> </Holder> </TestData> When I try to parse this, I am getting an exception: '<' cannot appear in attribute value. Looks like parser replaces &var1; with "<![CDATA[testvalue]]>", and since attribute values can not have "<" in them, this xml can not be parsed. And the problem goes away if I replace the entity definition with: <!DOCTYPE TestData [<!ENTITY var1 'testvalue'>]> However, I have to use CDATA here, cause I don't know what the value of "var1" can be at runtime, and it might contain quote characters or any other special characters and it will be hard to deal with various cases if I don't use CDATA... Can you recommend any way I can resolve this issue? Any ideas? Thanks in advance... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
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