Re: [Exist-open] XML elements containing unicode characters

[Tom B. <to...@tb...>]

Escaping it as it's output from PHP is the only way to do it  
properly.  Have your PHP convert the & to &.   As is, it's not  
well-formed XML.
--
Thomas Bradford
http://www.tbradford.org/


On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Peter Saffrey wrote:

>
> I have a PHP page that builds an XML file and uploads into an eXist  
> database. One of the elements in these files is a URL and I've run  
> into problems when the URL contains arguments. As an example, if I  
> have the element:
>
> <bib:url>hbmedcentral.nih.gov/botrender.fcgi? 
> blobtype=html&artid=1316260\\</bib:url>
>
> When uploading, I get the error message
>
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity "artid" must  
> end with the ';' delimiter.
>
> I'm sure there is some way of escaping this string to have it upload  
> exactly as it is, without trying to interpret the & as a control  
> character. Any ideas?
>
> Peter
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