Re: Parsing Special Characters with Expat

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly...the question is whether I can have them change their stuff.
I'm writing it to a file before processing, so I guess I could
transform it myself...bleah...

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grizzly Malchow
<grizzlym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The person or process that sends the xml should already have the special characters replaced. For example the & should appear in the xml as &amp;
> Expat does a fine job of parsing the xml as long as the xml is valid.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:21 AM
> To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects
> Subject: Parsing Special Characters with Expat
>
> Help! I'm using Scott's port of Expat, and it works great, but I'm
> having a problem with special characters in the XML. Here's an
> example:
>
> <ItemProductDescription>This daybed includes back & arms.
> Th...</ItemProductDescription>
>
> The ampersand is getting me of course, as well as other characters
> such as accents. I know that the data could be escaped coming in to
> me, but I don't know if I can get the sender to change the data. A
> couple questions:
>
> Is there a way I can handle these characters in Expat as they are,
> without the sender having to change the data?
>
> If I can get the sender to change the data, how to I 'unescape' the
> incoming data?
>
> I guess I could handle it manually if I could trap for the XML Parsing
> Error: not well-formed.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Michael
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