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Ah, another excellent point! Thanks Jonathan. I will replace the two bullets on CDATA with this: Partial Markup: the text may contain an incomplete unit of markup, such as the start symbols of a CDATA section but not the end symbols, a start tag but not its end tag, or the first delimiter of an attribute value but not its end delimiter. Also, I will add another bullet: Undefined Namespaces: the text may contain references to namespaces that are not defined in the XML document. Are these changes acceptable? /Roger -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@r...] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:09 PM To: Costello, Roger L. Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: [Summary] Dangers of Copying Text into an XML Document I wonder about this part: > 1. CDATA Section (beginning): The text may contain the symbols used > to indicate the start of a CDATA section: <!CDATA[[ > If the text does not also contain the symbols that indicate the > end of the CDATA section then the resulting XML will be in error. > 2. CDATA Section (ending): The text may contain the symbols used to > indicate the end of a CDATA section: ]]> > If the text does not also contain the symbols that indicate the > start of the CDATA section then the resulting XML will be in error. > How is that any different from text that contains the symbols used to indicate the start of an element or part of an attribute declaration? The more general point is that you have to include whole markup units, such as an entire CDATA section, element, attribute declaration, or whatever, or errors may result. Undefined namespaces are also an issue. Jonathan Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Many thanks for your excellent inputs. I have incorporated them into a > summary of the issue: > > http://www.xfront.com/copying-text-into-xml/ > > Please let me know of any inaccuracies and of any parts that are not > clear. > > /Roger > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > > >
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