Hi All,

I'm new to XML.

My DTD:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE database [
<!ELEMENT database (table+)>
<!ELEMENT row (#CDATA)>
<!ELEMENT table (row+)>
<!ATTLIST database name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST table name CDATA #REQUIRED>]>

isn't accepted by an XML parser, it complians about the line:
<!ELEMENT row (#CDATA)>
specifically about the #DATA part. If I change this to #PCDATA then all
is OK but I want the content between the <row></row> tags to be
unparsed.

How do I achieve this.

Thanks,

MrFred.

MrFredBloggs@hotmail.com wrote:[color=blue]
> I want the content between the <row></row> tags to be
> unparsed.[/color]

Element content is always #PCDATA, not #CDATA, per the XML
Recommendation's grammar.

To suppress parsing, you have to escape the data appropriately. If
you're using XML processing APIs to generate the document, they'll take
care of that for you; if not, you need to either escape a few of the
characters yourself or wrap it in a <!CDATA[[]]> section.

Also note that in XML 1.0, there are characters which are flat-out
illegal no matter how you try to escape them. If what you're trying to
express is a block of binary data, the usual solution is to encode it in
base 64 or some similar system and make converting it back to raw binary
the application's responsibility.


--
() ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Joe Kesselman
/\ Stamp out HTML e-mail! | System architexture and kinetic poetry

Joe Kesselman wrote:[color=blue]
> MrFredBloggs@hotmail.com wrote:[color=green]
> > I want the content between the <row></row> tags to be
> > unparsed.[/color]
>
> Element content is always #PCDATA, not #CDATA, per the XML
> Recommendation's grammar.
>
> To suppress parsing, you have to escape the data appropriately. If
> you're using XML processing APIs to generate the document, they'll take
> care of that for you; if not, you need to either escape a few of the
> characters yourself or wrap it in a <!CDATA[[]]> section.
>
> Also note that in XML 1.0, there are characters which are flat-out
> illegal no matter how you try to escape them. If what you're trying to
> express is a block of binary data, the usual solution is to encode it in
> base 64 or some similar system and make converting it back to raw binary
> the application's responsibility.
>
>
> --
> () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Joe Kesselman
> /\ Stamp out HTML e-mail! | System architexture and kinetic poetry[/color]

Thanks for that, MrFred.