xml parsing escape characters
Irmen de Jong
irmen at -nospam-remove-this-xs4all.nl
Thu Jan 20 12:06:56 EST 2005
Kent Johnson wrote:
[...]
> This is an XML document containing a single tag, <string>, whose content
> is text containing entity-escaped XML.
>
> This is *not* an XML document containing tags <DataSet>, <Order>,
> <Customer>, etc.
>
> All the behaviour you are seeing is a consequence of this. You need to
> unescape the contents of the <string> tag to be able to treat it as
> structured XML.
The unescaping is usually done for you by the xml parser that you use.
--Irmen
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