Re: [PHP4BETA] WDDX Character data

On Thu, 04 May 2000, Andrew Smith wrote: > Is it possible to have the serialize functions in WDDX escape "<" and > "&" > since at the moment strings containing those characters get serialised > correctly but cause the deserialize function to fall over. > > Normally this wouldn't be a problem since when creating the structures > before serialisation I can escape them myself, however I'm currently > serialising trees and when I unserialise them to edit a node, expat changes > all my &amp; and &lt; to & and <. This means that even though I'm only > editing one node in the tree I have to parse every other node to escape the > special characters before serialising the structure again. > > I'm not all that experienced at reading DTD's but from what I can gather > since in WDDX strings are not stored between <![CDATA[]]>, then section 2.4 > of the XML 1.0 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#syntax) says that "<" and > "&" *must* be escaped. Can anyone more experienced shed some light on > whether this is possible/desirable in the php implementation? Is it allowed > by the WDDX DTD? Would it break much existing code? Does an #implied CDATA > section not have to escape them, just like a real CDATA? and I guess most > importantly will it cause problems for other implementations of WDDX? I'll take a look at it. -Andrei * Who is Ray and why would we want to selectively trace him? *