Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >microsoft.public.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: MSXML crashed due to invalide character >Thread Next - Re: MSXML crashed due to invalide character Re: MSXML crashed due to invalide characterTo: NULL Date: 9/5/2005 1:15:00 AM Chris wrote: > You are right, Julian. There is some byte sequences in my xml content that > I retrieved from the 3rd party provider. The IE does provide some warning > after I enable activeX. This is helpful. > > One thing I don't understand, for an invalid character, if it's enclosed > in CDATA, why the parser still doesn't ignore it? I thought that's what > CDATA is supposed to do. FAQ: http://http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/cdata/ CDATA is designed to allow authors to include examples of verbatim markup (ie preventing the less-than and ampersand from being interpreted as markup) It is not designed as a way to pass broken markup or illegal characters through the parser and application to the output. If you want something ignored, it should go in a <!-- comment --> ///Peter | ||||||
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