Re: Patch for XML::Writer

At 09:28:06 on 2003-12-23 srinithan <srinithan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Ed,
>
>As of now, we cannot add a CDATA ( character data ) 
>to an XML document using XML::Writer.
>
>I patched it in the following way and attached the
>same with this mail.
>
>diff -c -b -r old_xml_writer/ new_xml_writer/ >
>xml_writer.patch
>
>we can add a cdata in the following ways:
>----------------------------------------
>Ex 1: 
>$writer->startTag("greeting");
># Insert CDATA "Hello, world"
> $writer->cData("Hello, world");
> $writer->endTag("greeting");
>
>Ex2:
>$writer->cdataElement("greeting", "Hello world");
>
The way that you are dealing with an embedded ]]> sequence within the
data to be written as CDATA is incorrect. You cannot just escape the >,
remember that you're writing CDATA and everything is treated literally
including escape sequences when the document is parsed.
I think that the only valid thing to do is to break the data on the ]]>
sequence, close the CDATA section, write the ]]> as ordinary data
(escaping the > character), then start a new CDATA section.

Regards
Duncan


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