[UPHPU] XMP and PERL issue

[Mike Mackrory]

If I could ask a stupid follow-up to this...

I have been messing with XML quite a bit lately, and am running into
problems passing special characters inside an XML file.  The biggest problem
is that the data is largely user controlled (Meaning I have no control!)

I wrote a function that basically sanitizes all the contents of an XML tag
and replaces any special characters, but I am sure there is a better way of
passing this type of information around.  Specifically I have had problems
with & < and "

Can any of you share a good way of fixing this, or perhaps point me in the
right direction?

Thanks

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org [mailto:uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org] On Behalf Of
Trevyn Meyer
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:29 PM
Cc: uphpu at uphpu.org
Subject: Re: [UPHPU] XMP and PERL issue

No laughs anymore huh?

The problem was with the @ symbol, and I thought it was so obvious that 
my comments would be funny.  Props to Mac.

Trevyn

Randy Moller wrote:
> Mac; Watch where you're throwing those pearls..... ;)
>
> Randy 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org [mailto:uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org] On Behalf
Of
> Mac Newbold
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:56 PM
> To: Trevyn Meyer
> Cc: uphpu at uphpu.org
> Subject: Re: [UPHPU] XMP and PERL issue
>
> Friday at 3:53pm, Trevyn Meyer said:
>
>   
>> Nope you all are stupid.
>>     
>
> Well, it looks like that kind of shut down the conversation. Did you ever 
> get it working?
>
> I hate to say it, and I'm not a complete expert on this topic, but I would

> doubt that @ and . would be valid for a tag in XML. Your second XML uses 
> it, and it seems to be causing a problem. They can be inside of a pair of 
> tags I'm sure, but using them as the name of the tag seems bad. You could 
> use them as an attribute value in a tag I bet, like this:
>
> <person id='trevyn at esourcehome.com'>
> ...
> </person>
>
> Anyway, good luck. In the future, you'll probably get better results if 
> you don't reply rudely to people who are trying to answer a question you 
> asked. They're not getting anything out of it, so you might as well be 
> nice to people who are helping you for free, especially if you want help 
> in the future. I guess I assumed that was common sense and normal 
> etiquette, but perhaps I was wrong.
>
> If we indeed are all stupid, do you have a reference for an XML spec that 
> says that @ and . are allowed in tag names, so we can educate ourselves?
>
> Thanks,
> Mac
>
>   
>> Scott Hill wrote:
>>     
>>> On 5/25/07, cole at colejoplin.com <cole at colejoplin.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Trevyn, I'm not sure you can use an '@' or a '.' in an xml tag, can
>>>> you? I've never even tried it. That's the first thing I'd change.
>>>>
>>>> -- Cole
>>>>         
>>> He's right.  You can't use an email address as a tag.
>>>       
>
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