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Parsing Input Data for well-formedness
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- Subject: [xsl] Parsing Input Data for well-formedness
- From: "McKeever, Marty" <marty dot mckeever at bankofamerica dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:45:09 -0400
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When building an XML file from external data, we need to validate that each
input string is well-formed. The specific situation is a Loan Type field
which returns "A&D". Before we populate our XML file, we need to convert
this to "A&D". Otherwise the XSLT will complain and not render the
final page.
Before we build a utility class for checking/correcting these (all?!?) input
strings, i have to ask the obvious -- has anyone already created something
like this? Certainly there are many other characters we will need to
consider, and we'll have to watch out for double-escaping things
(A&amp;D).
Must i reinvent this wheel?
Thanks,
Marty
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