What will XML parsers do if my text contains </mytag>?

[Kelvin (archive)]

Hi, there:

My question is, what if my text contains the tag in square bracket itself? What will MSXML30.dll do with such situation? Do I have to filter out these stuff before I save the XML file itself?

Kelvin

 

[Rolf Magnus]

Hi, there:

My question is, what if my text contains the tag in square bracket itself? What will MSXML30.dll do with such situation? Do I have to filter out these stuff before I save the XML file itself?

I have no idea what you're talking about. Could you elaborate? Anyway, an XML parser should only accept well-formed XML documents.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Kelvin wrote:

My question is, what if my text contains the tag in square bracket itself?

Well if that relates to the example in the subject line if you have </mytag> in your XML document then any XML parser parsing this will see that as a closing tag and will throw an error if there is no preceding properly

Do I have to filter out these stuff before I save the XML file itself?

It depends whether </mytag> is indeed intended to be XML markup or just character data, if character data you need to escape it e.g. &lt;/mytag&gt; or use a CDATA section <![CDATA[</mytag>]]>

 

[Kelvin (archive)]

I see. Thank you.

Kelvin

Kelvin wrote:

My question is, what if my text contains the tag in square bracket

itself?

Well if that relates to the example in the subject line if you have </mytag> in your XML document then any XML parser parsing this will see that as a closing tag and will throw an error if there is no preceding properly

Do I have to filter out these stuff before I save the XML file itself?

It depends whether </mytag> is indeed intended to be XML markup or just character data, if character data you need to escape it e.g. &lt;/mytag&gt; or use a CDATA section <![CDATA[</mytag>]]>