RE: Parsing Input Data for well-formedness

> When building an XML file from external data, we need to
> validate that each
> input string is well-formed.  The specific situation is a
> Loan Type field
> which returns "A&D".  Before we populate our XML file, we
> need to convert
> this to "A&D".  Otherwise the XSLT will complain and not
> render the final page.

The elegant solution is to generate your XML not as a character stream, but
as a sequence of SAX events. You can then feed this stream either into an
XSLT processor, or into the serializer of an XSLT processor (via the JAXP
1.1 identity transformer), or into almost any other XML software.

Mike Kay



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