Re: Reserved characters in input?

Thanks, Gunther; this is very helpful. I just rechecked the ixml step in
the pipeline and both Markup Blitz and xmq do, indeed, escape the ampersand
with an & character entity, and not with a CDATA marked section. Now to
figure out where the CDATA came from!

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM Gunther Rademacher <grd@gmx.de> wrote:

> David,
>
> the result serialization of Markup Blitz never creates a CDATA section,
> here is the code:
>
>
> https://github.com/GuntherRademacher/markup-blitz/blob/9dbba6ecff48d489449dd04d87beda1ac98cbf35/src/main/java/de/bottlecaps/markup/blitz/Parser.java#L360-L402
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>
> So running this command:
>
> java -jar markup-blitz.jar '!title : ~[]*.' '!"Wynken, Blynken & Nod"'
>
> creates this output:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><title>"Wynken, Blynken &amp;
> Nod"</title>
>
> Could it be that some tool further processed the serialized result before
> you got to see it?
>
> Best regards,
> Gunther
>
> *Gesendet: *Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2025 um 16:57
> *Von: *"David Birnbaum" <djbpitt@gmail.com>
> *An: *ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
> *Betreff: *Reserved characters in input?
> Dear public-ixml,
>
> Is there an ixml idiom for ingesting reserved characters (ampersand, angle
> brackets) and replacing them with XML entities? When I parse a plain-text
> input document that contains an ampersand using Markup Blitz or xmq, the
> output element creates a CDATA marked section for the entire content, so
> that, for example, when:
>
> "Wynken, Blynken & Nod"
>
> matches the production for a <title> element, it emerges as
>
> <title><![CDATA["Wynken, Blynken & Nod"]]></title>
>
> What I'd prefer is:
>
> <title>"Wynken, Blynken &amp; Nod"</title>
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David
>
>