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sjain
sjain

Reputation: 1723

XML encoding safe?


I am creating xml file with my own tags and given values and that in form of String and again I decode that in XML.
I have been said to check that is code-decode XML is XML encoding safe.
Any idea how to check it? or any thing that make it sure that it is XML safe.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 341

Answers (2)

Eugene Yokota
Eugene Yokota

Reputation: 95684

An XML document that satisfies XML spec is said to be "well-formed," whereas a document that satisfies a schema (such as XHTML) is said to be valid. Since you're rolling your own XML-derived language, you likely want to check well-formedness. If you Google "well-formedness checker," you'd find them online. Any XML parser also could be used to check it.

The basic idea is like @Philipp is saying, you can't use certain characters between the tags (like <), all begin tags need to match up with end tags, and Unicode characters are properly encoded.

Upvotes: 0

Philipp
Philipp

Reputation: 11833

If you would want to write </mytag> as the content between <mytag> and </mytag>, you have to escape the less-than and greater-than characters, for example. There are several entities defined for escaping:

&   -> &amp;
<   -> &lt;
>   -> &gt;
"   -> &quot;
'   -> &apos;

What programming language/platform are you using? If you aren't writing the XML all by yourself, there should be ways that you don't have to worry about this!

Upvotes: 2

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