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Heh. We actually do a *lot* of that sort of thing already (and in Visual-C++ (:-)
But every time we do that, it slows things down a notch more and the code becomes more unreadable and in the words of Bugs Bunny, frah-jee-lee. I guess it's a matter of where you want your point of pain.
Cheers,
Ramin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: Ramin Firoozye; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] CDATA strangeness
>
>
> Instead of tweaking tidy or Xerces-C why not just perform a
> simple search and replace by hand or programmatically (*cough*
> Perl *cough*).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ramin Firoozye [mailto:ramin@wizen.com]
> Sent: Tue 8/6/2002 9:44 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] CDATA strangeness
>
>
>
> This comes from an HTML-only site. They don't claim it's
> XML, but we're
> trying to load it in as an XML tree. The problem is when
> you pass the
> snippet through Tidy and Xerces-C, it barfs royally, saying
> there's a
> missing CDATA where it sees the '<![if' string.
>
> Very strange. I thought I'd pose it out here to see if
> anyone else had seen
> similar things, or if I had misread the spec. So far, I've heard 3-4
> conflicting opinions on whether this is legal XML or not.
>
> S'ok. Looks like we're going to tweak tidy and/or Xalan-C.
> We can't really
> have breakage on stuff like this and asking the site to
> change is like
> asking an elephant to quit hogging the dance floor.
>
> Others using the Tidy/Xalan-C combo might want to keep an
> eye out for it.
>
> Best,
> Ramin
>
> >
> > At 2:45 PM -0700 8/5/02, Ramin Firoozye wrote:
> >
> > >There's a fairly well-known web-site that returns:
> > >
> > ><!--[if IE]><script
> language=javascript>ie5=1;</script><![endif]-->
> > ><![if !IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=0;</script><![endif]>
> > >...
> >
> > This is not well-formed XML, not even close. The problem is the <!
> > outside the comment. If the site claims this is XML, then
> the site is
> > wrong. However, possibly the site is only serving HTML, not XML or
> > XHTML.
> > --
> >
>
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