Re: XML-SAX and ampersand

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Justin,

I don't understand what you mean by "the value comes in as. . ."   Comes 
into what?

Are you saying that it's passed to your XML-SAX handler with the & 
encoded as & like that?

The problem, as I see it, is the original XML is not well-formed.  You 
can't have a bare & in the document -- that violates XML specs.  It 
should be & in the original XML.

I don't know why that would cause XML-SAX to encode the &, or pass it 
encoded to your program....  but GIGO...

-SK


On 10/22/2014 8:35 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> I'm having an issue parsing this XML:
> <NAME>EXF-01 & 02</NAME>
>
> The value comes in as:
> EXF-01 &amp; 02
>
> The length is only 7, so I'm getting 'EXF-01 '.
>
>
> Any suggestions on this?  Do I have to ignore the length provided and parse it manually?