RE: Issues with Packaging Application Payloads

On Thu 10/19/2000 8:43 AM David Ezell (myself) wrote:
>On Wed 10/18/2000 6:27 PM +5:00 Mark Hughes wrote:
>>  Then there's #4, the *RIGHT WAY* to do this, which is:
>>A) Before inserting your arbitrary text into your XML wrapper, run it
>>through a filter that replaces & with &amp;, < with &lt;, and > with &gt;.
>>B) Before handing arbitrary text back to the user, run it through a filter
>>that replaces &lt; with <, &gt; with >, and &amp; with &.
>>
>>  Voila, the problem is solved.  You don't have the byte bloat of base64,
>>you don't have the limitation of not including ]]> in CDATA, and you don't
>>have to mess up validation.
>
>Not a bad idea for simple uses, but it won't nest (at least I don't think it
will):  
>the export filter would convert all the PCDATA at once.  It seems to me a safe
bet 
>that if you need to nest one level, you'll have use cases for nesting to N
levels.
>
>It may be that the other suggestions suffer the same drawback.

I was wrong -- it will nest (at least I think it will :-) ).  

-David