From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T04:18:16+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML: parsing a string with unescaped ampersand entities

Hi,

On 7-Dec-07, at 1:12 PM, Frank Reiff wrote:

> Hi,
>
> REXML seems to SOMETIMES choke on parsing ampersands within entities,
> e.g.
>
> string = '<?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><hello>hello&world</hello>'
> doc = Document.new(string)
> puts "#{doc}"
>
> works fine (output below):
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><hello>hello&world</hello>
>
> BUT:
>
> string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><hello>hello&
> world</hello>'
> doc = Document.new(string)
> puts "#{doc}"
>

[ snip]

>
> What is going on? and how can I fix this?

Neither is legal XML, both should fail. You can either escape the  
content or use a CDATA block.

Cheers,
Bob

>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Frank
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