Re: SiRPACs reaction on '&' from Dan Brickley on 1999-06-15 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from April to June 1999)

From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:43:44 +0100 (BST)
To: Christian Capelle <capelle@kbs.uni-hannover.de>
cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.02A.9906151040540.29863-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

This is an XML issue rather than RDF/SiRPAC. '&' in XML indicates an
'entity' reference, so the XML layer (SAX) used by SiRPAC gets confused.
I've found that replacing '&'s with '&amp;' (an entity representing the
ampersand) works just fine.

This is one of those HTML/web wierd legacy things. '&'s are used all
over the shop in URLs, but shouldn't really appear in SGML docs
unescaped, so were an odd thing for the CGI spec to have used...

Dan

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Christian Capelle wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm experimenting with SiRPAC. It seems, that SiRPAC doesn't allow the
> '&'-symbol in any context of an RDF-document. I even get an
> error-message (the
> messages are always different and not very expressive) when I place the
> symbol in the value of a comment-property. Can anybody tell me why?
> 
> Thanks, C. Capelle
> 
>

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