How can the CDATA ending delimiter "]]>" be represented within a CDATA
section itself?
Consider an XML document that is intended to contain an embedded,
uninterpreted XML example. Generally, the easiest way to represent it would
be to put the embedded XML example inside a CDATA section. But if the
example has a CDATA section itself, then the ending delimiter will be
interpreted as the end of the "real" CDATA section. Here's even a simpler
example with a script's conditional statement:
<test>
<!CDATA[
...
if g[a[i]]>f ...
...
]]>
</test>
This element returns errors when viewed and/or validated in VS.Net and IE 6.
They both interpret the "]]>" within the "if g[a[i]]>f ..." statement as the
end of the CDATA section. Multiple SGML sources on the web indicate that
the above XML should process correctly without change. Others say that the
">" (greater than) should be escaped inside the CDATA section using the
entity reference >. For example:
<test>
<!CDATA[
...
if g[a[i]]>f ...
...
]]>
</test>
But this doesn't work either because entity references are not interpreted
within a CDATA section. That's the whole point of the CDATA section... to
represent literal character data without escapes.
Is it even possible then? Or is this just a bug in all MS XML parsers? 6 8335
* Cade Perkins wrote in microsoft.publi c.dotnet.xml: How can the CDATA ending delimiter "]]>" be represented within a CDATA section itself?
Not possible; you have to split the section.
Two options:
<test>
<![CDATA[
...
if g[a[i]]>]]><![CDATA[f ...
...
]]>
</test>
And the more readable:
<test>
<![CDATA[
...
if g[a[i]] > f ...
...
]]>
</test>
"Cade Perkins" <ms****@perkcan .net> wrote... How can the CDATA ending delimiter "]]>" be represented within a CDATA section itself?
Consider an XML document that is intended to contain an embedded, uninterpreted XML example. Generally, the easiest way to represent it
would be to put the embedded XML example inside a CDATA section. But if the example has a CDATA section itself, then the ending delimiter will be interpreted as the end of the "real" CDATA section. Here's even a simpler example with a script's conditional statement:
<test> <!CDATA[ ... if g[a[i]]>f ... ... ]]> </test>
This element returns errors when viewed and/or validated in VS.Net and IE
6. They both interpret the "]]>" within the "if g[a[i]]>f ..." statement as
the end of the CDATA section. Multiple SGML sources on the web indicate that the above XML should process correctly without change. Others say that
the ">" (greater than) should be escaped inside the CDATA section using the entity reference >. For example:
<test> <!CDATA[ ... if g[a[i]]>f ... ... ]]> </test>
But this doesn't work either because entity references are not interpreted within a CDATA section. That's the whole point of the CDATA section... to represent literal character data without escapes.
Is it even possible then? Or is this just a bug in all MS XML parsers?
Cade Perkins wrote: How can the CDATA ending delimiter "]]>" be represented within a CDATA section itself? ...
Just don't use CDATA as well. Simply escape all "<" as "<" and you're
done.
Julian F. Reschke said: Just don't use CDATA as well. Simply escape all "<" as "<" and you're done.
Thanks for the help! This doesn't work for me in my case, but other
responses help me find a reasonable solution. For a few characters, this
fix would be fine, but if I am automating the process and simply want to
store a block of unknown text data, I don't want to have to consider and
replace every possible meta character that I need to escape using entity
references. The CDATA solution would work great except for the inability to
escape the end delimiter. I'm surprised that it is not part of the
specification. I don't understand all the roots of SGML and I imagine it
has an explanation, but every other language/specification I've worked with
allows some way of escaping the delimiter.
Thanks for the help! I'm trying to automate some XML generation, but want
to store literal blocks of text without worrying about having to replace all
possible meta characters with entity references. Although it's not
"pretty", I guess I'll just have to replace all instanced of "]]>" with
"]]>><![CDATA[" before I place the data in an XML element.
As for the second option (just adding a space), it would probably be great
for the simple example, but other times I wouldn't be able to arbitrarily
add spaces to the data just to make it work.
"Rowland Shaw" <sp********@ano therpointless.o rg> wrote in message
news:OO******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl... Two options: <test> <![CDATA[ ... if g[a[i]]>]]><![CDATA[f ... ... ]]> </test>
And the more readable: <test> <![CDATA[ ... if g[a[i]] > f ... ... ]]> </test>
"Cade Perkins" <ms****@perkcan .net> wrote in message
news:Or******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl... Julian F. Reschke said: Just don't use CDATA as well. Simply escape all "<" as "<" and you're done. Thanks for the help! This doesn't work for me in my case, but other responses help me find a reasonable solution. For a few characters, this fix would be fine, but if I am automating the process and simply want to store a block of unknown text data, I don't want to have to consider and replace every possible meta character that I need to escape using entity references. The CDATA solution would work great except for the inability
to escape the end delimiter. I'm surprised that it is not part of the specification. I don't understand all the roots of SGML and I imagine it has an explanation, but every other language/specification I've worked
with allows some way of escaping the delimiter.
Do this:
replace all the < and > in your inner xml document to < and > and that
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