vuln.xml *is* XML (was Re: vuln.xml is not XML)

[Dan Langille]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Jun Kuriyama wrote:

> At Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:15:02 -0500,
> Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> > > I refer to my previous message regarding the difficulties in parsing
> > > vuln.xml.  I have since learned that any markup (e.g. <p>) should be
> > > be in
> > > a CDATA section.
> > >
> > > See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ and look at section 2.7.
> > >
> > >    CDATA sections begin with the string "<![CDATA[" and end with the
> > >    string "]]>":]
> > >
> > > I propose that markup be enclosed with a CDATA section.
> >
> > No this is absolutely wrong :-)  The XHTML is embedded with VuXML...
> > the whole document is one XML document.  Some elements are in the VuXML
> > namespace, while others are in the XHTML namespace.  Markup cannot
> > exist in a CDATA section--- if it is in a CDATA section, it is *not*
> > markup but *text content*.
>
> Both are correct.  In good old XML world, we should use CDATA section
> to quote external markup.  On the other hand, VuXML lives in XML +
> Namespace world (see related recommendations).
>
> > I saw your earlier message about XML::Node, but since I am not familiar
> > with that (or XML::Parser), I did not understand what problem you were
> > having.  Could you try to describe it differently?
>
> I'm not sure XML::Parser can handle namespace correctly.  If it cannot
> do such, parser will confuse when it reads markups with namespace.

With CDATA, it works, without, it fails and I have to treat every <p>,
<em> and <blockquote> as a node, not markup.

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Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/