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Re: Error and Fatal Error

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:11:36 +0100

On 17 July 2011 21:42, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:
> On 17/07/2011 20:30, Stephen D Green wrote:
>>
>> because the XML content includes data input into textbox controls, etc
>> in a webpage and we do not want to prevent users inputing '<' and '&'
>
> but surly it's fairly trivial to do a string replace on all such input
> to change < and & to &lt; and &amp; a lot simpler (and more reliable) than
> suggesting the entire xml parsing model changes.

Yep, or better still put it through an xml serialiser...



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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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