Re: XMLSERVICE and Parsing XML Responses

Richard, did you see my response?
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201512/msg00401.html

You need to specify the cdata option to be "on" so responses will be
enclosed in a CDATA tag (character data), telling the parser not to attempt
to parse it.

<data><![CDATA[A & E Services]]></data>


​Thanks,​
Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Interesting.





Since Zend chose this as a PHP data access mechanism for IBM i, I wonder
how
they deal with this issue.





Seems to me that the XMLCGI app needs to be tweaked to encode returned XML
data so it can be properly parsed by an XML handler rather than fixed.





Back to the hack factory :-)





Regards,


Richard Schoen


richardschoen.net


Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Cell: 612-384-2118




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message: 3
date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 22:18:25 -0600
from: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: XMLSERVICE and Parsing XML Responses

The & should be encoded. Your parser is looking for the representation
following it and hits a blank... error.

I run into this all the time with XML and different trading partners.
There's never one that works like the other, or that doesn't need special
attention and data "massaging" before I can run it through a parser.

*shrug*

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not sure if this is specific to .Net, but when parsing returned

XMLSERVICE

XML data that contains an ampersand.

Example: "A & E Services" I get a .Net XML parser error.

If I replace the ampersand with something else it works fine.

Has anyone else seen this issue with XMLSERVICE or even parsing data that
contains special characters that aren't encoded ?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

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