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  3. June 2012

Re: reserved character in XML element value

Hi David,

You're right, you should not have to escape the & character if it's within a <![CDATA[ wrapper.

Unfortunately, not every XML parser supports CDATA (especially the very early ones) and if the server is using a home-grown XML interpreter, then all bets are off.

Converting from & to &amp; should work anywhere/everywhere. You should also change < to &lt;, and > to &gt;. There are a few others that are recommended (though not necessarily required) as well.


On 6/4/2012 5:31 PM, David Baugh wrote:
I have a data item on file that I'm inserting into an element before
posting it in a request. In this particular case, the data contains a
'&' which is causing server's parser to error out. I do have it
wrapped in<![CDATA[ ...]]>. Obviously I'm misunderstanding this,
since I thought occurrences of such would be accepted if inside this
wrapper. Can anyone explain why I'm getting a parser error on an '&'
when it's inside the wrapper?

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