Subject: RE: [xsl] invalid xml characters From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:08:48 -0800 |
I didn't see the original post, but SQL2000 automatically escapes those characters to " ' and so on. So this guy shouldn't be having to write post-processors (unless he thinks he wants to convert the " *back* to a double-quote in the XML, which is illegal). > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Brown [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:36 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] invalid xml characters > > stevenson wrote: > > How can characters like double quote ("") be automatically escaped, as > my > > data is coming from the database (SQL Server 2000) and it's users who > input > > data in the database from the form in my intranet (front end) > > You don't say what this has to do with XSLT (the topic of this list). > > If you're just asking this question in general, then my advice is to try > to > ensure that the data goes into the database unescaped, then when pulling > it > out to put into XML, use your own external process (script or function) to > escape "&" and "<", and quotes that are destined to be in attribute values > delimited by the same kind of quotes. > > - Mike > ________________________________________________________________________ __ > __ > mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ > denver/boulder, colorado, usa | resume: http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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