At 09:28:06 on 2003-12-23 srinithan <srinithan@[...].in>  wrote:

> Hi Ed,
> 
> As of now, we cannot add a CDATA ( character data ) 
> to an XML document using XML::Writer.
> 
> I patched it in the following way and attached the
> same with this mail.
> 
> diff -c -b -r old_xml_writer/ new_xml_writer/ >
> xml_writer.patch
> 
> we can add a cdata in the following ways:
> ----------------------------------------
> Ex 1: 
> $writer->startTag("greeting");
> # Insert CDATA "Hello, world"
>  $writer->cData("Hello, world");
>  $writer->endTag("greeting");
> 
> Ex2:
> $writer->cdataElement("greeting", "Hello world");
> 
The way that you are dealing with an embedded ]]>  sequence within the
data to be written as CDATA is incorrect. You cannot just escape the > ,
remember that you're writing CDATA and everything is treated literally
including escape sequences when the document is parsed.
I think that the only valid thing to do is to break the data on the ]]> 
sequence, close the CDATA section, write the ]]>  as ordinary data
(escaping the >  character), then start a new CDATA section.

Regards
Duncan


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