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  • From: Luca Passani <passani AT eunet.no>
  • To: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [XOM-interest] entity in attribute value
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:34:51 +0100


Hi, I just figured that XML is touchy about using entities in attribute value even for super-simple XML files with no DTD:

<capability name="entity_euro" value="&euro;"/>

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity "euro" was referenced, but
not declared.
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.j
ava:1189)
at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:1127)


is there a standard way to escape entities in XML?

who said that XML was simple? it is horrendously gotcha-ridden....

Thanks

Luca





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