- From: Tony Opatha <tonyopatha@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:40:22 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3c.org
- Message-ID: <20030619174022.56797.qmail@web20514.mail.yahoo.com>
Yes, it is the case that the validating parser is processing CDATA and can not determine which element the data belongs to??? CDATA section seems to be ignored by XML Spy while same XSD and same XML instance seems to be processed and deemed not valid (see error in attached e-mail below). Following note seems to indicate the misconception that everything in CDATA is ignored by the parser: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp So, is there a way we can "play" around XSD data type specification for the element that contains the CDATA. It would be quite difficult to "escape" all characters in the CDATA section to satisfy the xerces parser. Any ideas how to workaround this problem. Thanks for you help. Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com> wrote: It is a common misconception that information within a CDATA section is not processed by the XML parser but instead is skipped. Unfortunately this is incorrect. CDATA sections are at best a shorthand mechanism that prevents having to escape certain characters not a directive to the XML parser to halt processing until further notice. ________________________________ From: Tony Opatha [mailto:tonyopatha@yahoo.com] Sent: Wed 6/18/2003 9:54 PM To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org Subject: [xml-dev] CDATA processing problem using Xerces-J validating parser I have a XML doc instance that contains CDATA section: "" Parsers validating this XML are supposed to ignore the CDATA. XML Spy validates the XML instance fine using its corresponding XSD which defines the CDATA as a xsd:string. Now when I use in run-time Xeres-J parser it seems to be processing the CDATA and obviously fails to validate the CDATA section since it has all types of illegal characters in it: Here is the error I get: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Data not belonging to any element encountered: 32.com Record Any ideas why this is a problem. I believe this may be a Xerces 1.4 parser. Does xerces support correct handling of CDATA??? thanks ________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
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