peter-757102 (5/3/2012)
They are unable to model their data properly and often do not handle escaping well, causing errors in individual elements. But XML escaping is extremely simple and requires only a few find/replace actions you can do in practically every programming environment. It is truly a lack of basic knowledge that is the culprit here. I developed a toolset to work around the encoding issue by dropping those specific objects of interest that have these errors and keep processing the rest of the document.
Indeed, as an XML novice I found escaping an extremely annoying and frustrating task. (This was to produce XML to be read by PHP for displaying on a website.) In addition, I couldn't find an easy way to write out XML from SQL to a file with an included XML header, so I have used a rather clunky work-around.
Would you have any good links/references about how to handle this?
Thanks,
Rich