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Marty,
The only characters you need to worry about are '&' and '<'. XML is deliberately put together this way. Why are double escapings a problem? you just have to find, and escape, any '&' or '<' that is not a markup delimiter. How bad the problem is depends on what's coming in. If it's well-formed XML (which you've said it isn't, I know), all '&' and '<' are markup delimiters except those in CDATA marked sections. If it's plain text, none of them will be markup delimiters since there's no markup. If it's something else, things get trickier. HTML would be such a format, or non-well-formed pseudo-XML fragments. In this case, you need to know not only what you want from these characters (that's pretty easy: & or <), but also what you want to happen to your markup (and how you tell it's markup). Which of these do you have? Cheers, Wendell At 01:45 PM 10/9/01, you wrote: 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. ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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