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Re: Parsing Input Data for well-formedness
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Parsing Input Data for well-formedness
- From: "cutlass" <cutlass at secure0 dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:56:40 +0100
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try out tidy or JTIDY .
u can obtain the src and binary from http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
this will convert into well formed xml and also convert into proper
encodings,
u can of course test your wellformedness by reusing expat or some other
validating xml parser.
cheers, jim fuller
----- Original Message -----
From: "McKeever, Marty" <marty.mckeever@bankofamerica.com>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: [xsl] Parsing Input Data for well-formedness
> When building an XML file from external data, we need to validate that
each
> input string is well-formed. The specific situation is a Loan Type field
> which returns "A&D". Before we populate our XML file, we need to convert
> this to "A&D". Otherwise the XSLT will complain and not render the
> final page.
>
> Before we build a utility class for checking/correcting these (all?!?)
input
> strings, i have to ask the obvious -- has anyone already created something
> like this? Certainly there are many other characters we will need to
> consider, and we'll have to watch out for double-escaping things
> (A&amp;D).
>
> Must i reinvent this wheel?
>
> Thanks,
> Marty
>
>
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