Re: Invalid character reference while parsing

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Subject: Re: Invalid character reference while parsing
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:11:15 -0400

Shishir

The characters "&" and "<" are reserved in XML as what are called "open markup delimiters" -- that is, they are the characters recognized by XML processors as indicating that what follows is markup, not data. Hence they can't be used as plain characters.

XML provides for character references, which you can use to work around this. For "<" use the reference "<" (that's "& l t ;" for those with overzealous email clients) and "&" (that's "& a m p ;") for "<" and "&" respectively.

If you'd like to read a rationale and deeper explanation for all this, take a look at http://xmlshoestring.com/xml101/wfrules.

BTW, strictly speaking this question is out of scope for this list, which is about XSLT and not XML in general.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 07:43 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote:

Hi All,
I create a text node in an xml document which might contain characters like
"&"  and <(angle brackets) to say atleast.
Now when this is parsed by xslt parser it throws an error saying

"could not parse input XML document
SAX Exception
Invalid character in reference"

what i did --
at the time of generation of node ,i look for "&" and "angle brackets" in
data and replace these characters.
then it works fine.

but i really want to know is this the best method to achieve this?
or we have any better practice?

I am using XML4J, as XML processor, and LotusXSL as xslt parser.

Thanks & Regards
___________________________
Shishir Srivastava

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