Re: amp

On Friday 27 September 2002 10:24 am, you wrote:
> The data come from the DB, and it's the user who feed the DB hence can not
> control user from using '&'. Is there  a way of escaping this character if
> the data comes from the DB? I have resaerched all over on the  internet but
> have not gotten an appropriate explaination. It tells me to use '&' but
> this data comes from the DB, how can i pick all '&' and trasform them in to
> '&'.
>
> Please assist, it's this discussion i mostly rely on in terms of knowledge
>
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> Subject: RE:  amp
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> > I have a database driven intranet which uses XSLT to format
> > the XML files. it crashes when it encounters '&'. How can i
> > stop this from happening?
>
> Change the software that's generating the XML so that the XML it
> produces is well-formed.
>
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
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What kind of database, you use? Because almost all the databases support 
programming languages (like c, plsql, etc.), which can extend possibilities 
of its queries.. So, if you have rights to your db, you can easily overwrite 
the appropriate queries: you should change all of the occurences of the & to 
&#ord(&);.

Balazs, Kovacs
Hungary

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