[xep-support] Need help rendering special characters

[Alexander Peshkov]

Hello Joyce,

SAXParseException is thrown by XML parser and means that something
went wrong on the XML parsing step.

In your case the XML document is invalid - you have incorrect CDATA
section. Instead of:
   <[!CDATA[12345678&<<>99]]>
you should have:
   <![CDATA[12345678&<<>99]]>
(note the position of exclamation sign)
I don't know how your colleague managed to run non-valid document
through FOP - on my machine FOP (or, to be more precise, Xerces parser
used by FOP) complains about broken document as it should.

Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov                             mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
RenderX

JH> Hello, 
 
JH>  My name is Joyce Huang from VNS in New York. I have trouble to escaping
JH> special characters in xml file, such as "&" "<" etc.. Our data source is a
JH> cobal program, which is vert restricted on record length. To escape when the
JH> xml is written is not possible, so I endup with a not well-formed xml with
JH> the task of fixing it before rendering.   I am trying to use CDATA in xml
JH> like following. Please pay attention to the highlighted line which deal with
JH> special characters. One of my co-workers ran it through FOP and actually
JH> generated a pdf with the CDATA part "12345678&<<>99" intact, while when I
JH> passed it to renderx, I got a SAXParseException.  Does renderX currently
JH> support CDATA? If not, can you recommend a solution?

         
JH> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
JH> <print-job>
JH>         <header>
JH>                 <copies>2</copies>
JH>                 <duplex>true</duplex>
JH>         </header>
        
JH> <NETPRNT_485_DATA>
JH>         <NETPRNT_485_AGENCY_DATA>
        
JH> <NETPRNT_485_HIC_NUMBER><[!CDATA[12345678&<<>99]]></NETPRNT_485_HIC_NUMBER>
        
JH> <NETPRNT_485_START_OF_CARE_DAT>02/05/03</NETPRNT_485_START_OF_CARE_DAT>
JH>            </NETPRNT_485_AGENCY_DATA>
JH> </NETPRNT_485_DATA>
JH> </print-job>


JH> Thanks.
JH> Joyce Huang

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