[JDEV] Wanna know something...

Jeremie jeremie at jabber.org
Tue Apr 6 15:31:48 CDT 1999


> Is there a cryption to avoid XML conflicts? I mean for example
> if a user send a message that has </SAY> in it, itwould be:
> 
> <SAY></SAY></SAY>
> 
> Although the first </SAY> is the user's message, the XML parser would think that its end of SAY and give error at the second </SAY>. I don't know, you've discussed this (I've 165 more mails to read, gimme some time ;-] ), but maybe we can use the same cryption
> as in HTML files :
> 
> "<" will be crypted to "&lt;" and "&" will be crypted to "&amp;"

Yes, this is part of XML, the following entities are defined:

&	&amp;
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
"	&quot;
'	&apos;

Currently, if the server encounters bad XML as in the above example, it
will currently just drop the connection, but eventually it will at least
attempt to deliver an error message first.

Jer




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