vuln.xml *is* XML (was Re: vuln.xml is not XML)

[Jun Kuriyama]

At Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:15:02 -0500,
Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> > I refer to my previous message regarding the difficulties in parsing
> > vuln.xml.  I have since learned that any markup (e.g. <p>) should be 
> > be in
> > a CDATA section.
> >
> > See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ and look at section 2.7.
> >
> >    CDATA sections begin with the string "<![CDATA[" and end with the
> >    string "]]>":]
> >
> > I propose that markup be enclosed with a CDATA section.
> 
> No this is absolutely wrong :-)  The XHTML is embedded with VuXML... 
> the whole document is one XML document.  Some elements are in the VuXML 
> namespace, while others are in the XHTML namespace.  Markup cannot 
> exist in a CDATA section--- if it is in a CDATA section, it is *not* 
> markup but *text content*.

Both are correct.  In good old XML world, we should use CDATA section
to quote external markup.  On the other hand, VuXML lives in XML +
Namespace world (see related recommendations).

> I saw your earlier message about XML::Node, but since I am not familiar 
> with that (or XML::Parser), I did not understand what problem you were 
> having.  Could you try to describe it differently?

I'm not sure XML::Parser can handle namespace correctly.  If it cannot
do such, parser will confuse when it reads markups with namespace.


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