Re: [xml-dev] Error and Fatal Error

[Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

Cross-posting, but yes it would be possible to do that

but mean handling all the weird and wonderful angle

bracket stuff ourselves in code (and without MicroXML

simplification so we could have XML with namespace

declarations apearing just about anywehere, any legal

whitespace anywhere, etc, etc). Why write our own

XML parser when there is a proper one in the .NET

framework all tested and standards-conformant. All

we need to do is simply check the content of each

element for illegal characters. Do we really have to

write an XML parser just for that?! The idea of .NET

is to use a framework based on RAD and not have

to write things from scratch (unlike, in my experience,

Java which seems to take developers ages to write

a typical webform). The only sticking point seems to be

these clauses in the XML spec making the .NET parser

a little too quirky and fussy. I think that's a fair assessment

from what I'm hearing on this list.

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Stephen D Green

On 17 July 2011 21:42, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:

On 17/07/2011 20:30, Stephen D Green wrote:

because the XML content includes data input into textbox controls, etc
in a webpage and we do not want to prevent users inputing '<' and '&'

but surly it's fairly trivial to do a string replace on all such input
to change < and & to &lt; and &amp; a lot simpler (and more reliable) than suggesting the entire xml parsing model changes.

David

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