From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T08:40:13+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml difficulties

cs5b@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hello all, just wondering whether someone else has observed this.
> 
> I am using REXML and at times, it seems to have difficulties "seeing" a
> closing tag. I am wrapping XML-escaped binary data in XML and as a
> result there might be a lot of special characters between tags. I
> assume some of those special characters are causing problems...
> 
> I added '\n' chars at the end of the binary stream, which seemed to
> help, but not completely solve the problem.
> 
> Anybody else observed this or has suggestions on how to overcome this
> problem?

Show us the problem. There are many kinds of character sequences that are
not allowed in XML data fields, and there are a number of ways to escape
the data fields, but they have to be applied in order to work. Arbitrary
data can't simply be dropped between XML delimiters, without certain
precautions being taken.


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Paul Lutus
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