Re: SAX parser splits URL ...

From:

Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:34:18 +0200

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On 27.06.2012 05:50, lbrt chx _ gemale wrote:

  I have an URL in an XML file that looks like this:
~
...
   <Location>http://pagesinxt.com/?dn=www.outfo.org&flrdr=yes&nxte=zip</Location>
...
~
  http://xsdvalidation.utilities-online.info/
~
is telling me the document itself is valid, but the SAX parser is
splitting the value at every "&"
~
// __ start element iIxLvl: |3|Location
// __ start characters iIxLvl: |3|http://pagesinxt.com/?dn=www.outfo.org|
// __ start characters iIxLvl: |3|&|
// __ start characters iIxLvl: |3|flrdr=yes|
// __ start characters iIxLvl: |3|&|
// __ start characters iIxLvl: |3|nxte=zip|
// __ end element iIxLvl: |2|Location|
~
  I found some sort of an explanation here:
~
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1328538/how-do-i-escape-ampersands-in-xml
~
  I couldn't make much sense of (I tried a few things)
~
  Is this related to a setting in the parser? Is there a way to fix that problem?

That's not related to the parser - at least not to a particular one. It
is a feature of XML which allows you to include characters in the
document which are not supported by the native encoding you use when
writing the document.

The concept is known as "XML entity". Please see
http://www.tizag.com/xmlTutorial/xmlentity.php
http://www.javacommerce.com/displaypage.jsp?name=entities.sql&id=18238

The standard
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#sec-references

Bottom line, you can do

<Location>http://pagesinxt.com/?dn=www.outfo.org&flrdr=yes&nxte=zip</Location>

But please read up on XML more thoroughly - it pays off.

Kind regards

robert

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