Subject: RE: [xsl] display & as text From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:23:56 -0400 |
> At 07:08 PM 6/4/2010, you wrote:
>>Is there a book that explains where and how and when to do the string
>>manipulation programmatically on incoming data necessary to allow it to have
>>the illegal entities changed to legal ones? I am the owner of several xml
>>and xsl books that don't seem to cover that part of the process.
>
> Strictly speaking the question (indeed the entire thread) is off-topic.
I believe the person was trying to help me out by that question. The object of my original post was to get a way to use the "&" character as regular text in an xml file. And I think by her wording she was trying to interface with the high minded pros on this list to get a relavent solution to my first post.
> But it is both simple and complicated -- probably why there's no > treatment of it in a book. The simple version of it is too simple to > need it. The complicated version is both too deep and too general to > be much use to a working programmer who has a specific set of issues.
Situation: for non-programmers copying and pasting text with "&" characters.
> The complex answer accounts for how some characters aren't allowed in > XML, so they need to be scrubbed or changed into something else > (these are mainly control characters you won't ordinarily see), and > how certain constructs (namely, entity references) will be legal if > you have declarations for them....
So what is the code?
> The simple answer is that, if these complications don't intervene, > simply escaping all "&" into "&" and "<" into "<" should do > the trick....
No thanks. Think about your Grandma's carpal tunnel syndrome or Stephen Hawking's ALS disease.
Cheers, Wendell
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