Re: XML from JSP

sara.mitchell@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The JSP directive: 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > <%
> > String block = "work";
> > %>
> 
> is not well-formed XML. The XML parser expects 
> that anything beginning with < represents
> XML markup. (Note: parsers don't compile 
> XML, they parse it.)
> 
> To make it well-formed, you need to have the 
> JSP directive inside a CDATA marked section
> like this: 
> 
> <![CDATA[<%
>  String block = "work";
>  %>]]>

And to answer the inevitable next question, CDATA sections are lexical fluff, 
so the document author might as well just write

&lt;%
String block = "work";
%>

Either way, they have to use either

 1. directly serialized XML or HTML output mode, with
    disable-output-escaping (if supported at all); or

 2. text output mode, after having assembled the entire document
    as nothing but text nodes containing pseudo-markup like this.

Personally, I would instead use XML output mode and make elements that will be
serialized in JSP's XML syntax, or maybe I'd emit processing instructions and
run the serialized output through a regex filter to replace the PIs with the
appropriate tags.

   - Mike
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