Re[3]: [cgmo-webcgm] QUESTION: ban 0x09, 0x0A, 0x0D from 'name' ?

[Benoit Bezaire <benoit@itedo.com>]

Forgot to CC the group.

Yes, entities.

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 Benoit   mailto:benoit@itedo.com

 
Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 1:02:50 PM, Lofton wrote:

LH> At 12:20 PM 10/4/2005 -0400, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>>Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 11:58:18 AM, Lofton wrote:
>>
>>[...]
>>LH> Here is another thought that has occurred to me during this
>>LH> dialog. The 1.0 repertoire would allow, in the value of a 'name'
>>LH> ApsAttr, forexample, the character "<".  E.g., a valid value
>>LH> wouldbe:
>>LH> "my <special> group"
>>
>>LH> You can see where I'm going I guess:  XCF.  This would
>>LH> beproblematic as an XML attribute value, right?  (So can it be
>>LH> handled by CDATA section within the XML attribute?  I'm not
>>LH> familiar enough to know the answer to that.)
>>An XML parser would say that the document is not well formed, you'll
>>never be able to get beyond this point.

LH> Right.  So how does one get "<" into an XML attribute value?  With
LH> entities?  E.g.,
LH> "my &lt;special&gt; group" ?

LH> -Lofton.