SPUG: & causing problems with Parser.pm

[Christopher Cavnor]

Try encoding the incoming text as so:

my $offensive_lang = "this & that";
HTML::Entities::encode_entities($offensive_lang);
print $offensive_lang;

#yields: "this & that"


XML chokes on certain entities (&,<,>) - best to replace them in unqualified input.

Cheers;
Chris

The following message was sent by "Brittingham, John" <john.brittingham at attws.com> on Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:16:27 -0700 .

> Help..
> 
> When I try to process an XML file using XML::Twig that has an "&" anywhere
> in it I get this message.
> 
> undefined entity at line 23, column 79, byte 1331 at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/XML/Parser.pm line 185
> 
> One of the affending XML lines is "<LI><A
> HREF="http://knowissue.entp.attws.com:6668/servlet/IsuEngine?view=detail&id;
> =2815">Equipment issues log</A>".
> 
> The error is happening here "my $s_name           = $module->first_child(
> 'FIX'); # get the elements
> 				     $subproc_xml          =
> $s_name->child($n, 'SUBPROC')->sprint || print "FIX not Found\n"; # get
> their text"
> 
> What can I do to fix this?
> 
> 


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