[JDEV] CDATA in messages

Wed Aug 28 10:58:25 CDT 2002

It appears Exodus is not escaping the CDATA block. It is also not 
excaping entities e.g. &amp;. I would file a bug against that project.

-David Waite

Jens Askengren wrote:

>I just had a discussion about xml over jabber..
>
>I typed something like this:
>
>	<![[CDATA[ hello ]]>
>
>but my peer recieved 
>
>	  hello 
>
>So the CDATA tag was interpreted somewhere in the
>message chain: Exodus <-> jabberd <-> Gabber.
>
>Repeating the test while the recipient was offline, resulted in
>a message with <body> hello </body> beeing stored in the jabberd spool
>file.
>
>Either jabberd or the clients are broken I guess. 
>But the clients does encode regular tags correctly. I dont understand
>why a CDATA tag should be trated differently.
>
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