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Re: Questions about character entities in XML and PCI security compliance

From: tempest@----.---
To: NULL
Date: 8/8/2008 3:45:00 PM

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:55:19 +0100, "Joe Fawcett"
<joefawcett@n...> wrote:

>Well we have similar files and I've never seen that happen. As you say they 
>seem to be escaping twice. In my opinion they're wrong but I'd need to know 
>their process etc.
>Pragmatically you may need to un-escape once before treating the file as 
>XML.

I think I will just do what you suggested and write an extra process
to convert ("un-escape") bad character entities to proper entities
first before passing parsing XML files.

At least I am glad that someone agrees with me that the third party
ecommerce site is not exporting proper character entnites in their XML
file.  They refused to fix the problem and used PCI security policy as
their excuse.

I spent several hours on Google tyring to find if there is any
relevancy at all between the use of XML character entities and PCI
security.  And I found none.


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