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This is not really an XSL question but is closely related, so I hope someone is kind enough to answer. I have some news feeds that I am transforming to WML. The feeds come in in a flat text file, I wrote a quick and dirty Perl script to parse these text files and convert them to XML (using XML::Simple), this then allows me to easily transform them to WML using XSLT. On some files I get special characters (eg '£') which cause parse errors when trying to transform my (not quite valid) XML. What I need to know is how can easily convert these special characters to entities or escape them with CDATA tags in such a manner that I can transform them to valid WML. Is it a stupid idea to put all the data in CDATA tags? Otherwise, how will I know which characters are going to need escaping. Any help appreciated. Ross Kendall Technical Developer Affinity Internet Holdings e: rkendall@xxxxxxxxx p: +44 (0)20 7670 1155 w: http://www.aih.co.uk/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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