Re: Escaping Characters in Dynamic data.

On Tuesday, February 13, 2001 8:56 AM
Owen wrote

> I have come across a problem when processing XML files produced
dynamically
> by a script pulling back data from a database. If there are reserved
XML
> characters within the database content being retrieved then some XML
parsers
> will throw up an error (depending on the character), so preventing
further
> processing (in this case transformation to html). The only
(unsatisfactory)
> solution I can think of at the moment is to CDATA every field I
retrieve
> dynamically, as I have no control over the input into the database.

If you have sufficient access to the data to wrap it in CDATA,
couldn't you instead just fix the "reserved" characters (depending on
what precisely you mean by that) before letting the XSLT processor see
it?

Michael
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