Re: [xsl] Invalid character reference while parsing

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shishir

The characters "&" and "<" are reserved in XML as what are called "open 
markup delimiters" -- that is, they are the characters recognized by XML 
processors as indicating that what follows is markup, not data. Hence they 
can't be used as plain characters.

XML provides for character references, which you can use to work around 
this. For "<" use the reference "&lt;" (that's "& l t ;" for those with 
overzealous email clients) and "&amp;" (that's "& a m p ;") for "<" and "&" 
respectively.

If you'd like to read a rationale and deeper explanation for all this, take 
a look at http://xmlshoestring.com/xml101/wfrules.

BTW, strictly speaking this question is out of scope for this list, which 
is about XSLT and not XML in general.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 07:43 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote:
> Hi All,
> I create a text node in an xml document which might contain characters like
> "&"  and <(angle brackets) to say atleast.
> Now when this is parsed by xslt parser it throws an error saying
>
> "could not parse input XML document
> SAX Exception
> Invalid character in reference"
>
> what i did --
> at the time of generation of node ,i look for "&" and "angle brackets" in
> data and replace these characters.
> then it works fine.
>
> but i really want to know is this the best method to achieve this?
> or we have any better practice?
>
> I am using XML4J, as  XML processor, and LotusXSL as xslt parser.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> ___________________________
> Shishir Srivastava
>
>
>
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