<Any> element doesn’t catch character entities

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    • May 17, 2006 at 8:30 PM #13632
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        What about wrapping values with CDATA clause?

        Neal Walters
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      • May 18, 2006 at 6:58 PM #13633
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          As far as I know there is no schema definition for CDATA. It’s just a statement in XML that temporarily turns off the well-formed-ness parser.

          Neal

          • May 19, 2006 at 3:12 PM #13634
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              The program that creates the XML would have to include the CData tag in the XML itself. Where does your XML come from?

              Neal

              • May 19, 2006 at 10:14 PM #13635
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                  Okay, let’s go back to the original issue. According to Stylus Studio, the XML is not well-formed. Even Internet Explorer browser says:

                  Reference to undefined entity ‘ndash’. Error processing resource ‘file:///C:/TestNdash.xml’. Line 1, Position 37

                  So rule #1 of XML is that XML has to be well-formed. How can another company send you XML that is not well-formed?

                  In my opinion, they must provide well-formed XML.

                  If they refuse, then you must somehow translate it to well-formed XML, probably through writing your own ReceivePipeline.

                  Neal Walters
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                  • May 19, 2006 at 10:30 PM #13636
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                      I started thinking about this some more – so apparently XML doesn’t support things like &ndash; or even &nbsp; (I just now noticed your URL’s in your original message – sorry I didn’t look at them earlier.)

                      Since &nbsp; is more common I googled it and found this:

                      http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200009/msg00048.html \
                      &nbsp; is not a default XML entity. Either use a DTD to define it or use the
                      unicode hex value directly in the entity (Š IIRC).

                      http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/xmlchar.html
                      http://xmlchar.sourceforge.net/

                      http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html

                      But I’ll stick with my earlier statement that your trading partner must send your well-formed XML.

                      Neal

                      • May 17, 2006 at 7:49 PM #13637
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                          I have a [b:2146b2a22a]<Any> [/b:2146b2a22a]element in my Schema to catch any type of content –

                          [code:1:2146b2a22a]<xs:element minOccurs=\"0\" maxOccurs=\"unbounded\" name=\"MixedDescription\">
                          <xs:complexType mixed=\"true\">
                          <xs:sequence>
                          <xs:any processContents=\"skip\" />
                          </xs:sequence>
                          </xs:complexType>
                          </xs:element>[/code:1:2146b2a22a]

                          But it does not catch entities like this &ndash; –

                          [code:1:2146b2a22a]<MixedDescription>….some content &ndash; … content continues</MixedDescription>[/code:1:2146b2a22a]

                          XmlSpy, Stylus Studio and Visual Studio all point out that this is an undeclared charater entity.

                          I came across this idea to implement entites as elments –
                          http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010829094626

                          but there are a LOT of characters to replace which are possible Xml Character entities
                          http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/wd-docbook-xmlcharent-0.3.html

                          (I would have to do this in preprocessing)

                          Is there a simpler way than to replace so many entities? (As I work for a publishing house any of these could be possibly expected).

                          Why doesnt the <Any> element catch character entities?

                          • May 17, 2006 at 8:52 PM #13638
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                              Good idea, and it works. But how to declare that in a Biztalk schema?

                              [quote:323756d0d8=\”nwalters\”]What about wrapping values with CDATA clause?

                              Neal Walters
                              http://Biztalk-Training.com – Learn Biztalk Faster
                              http://Shareoint-Training.com – End User Courses[/quote:323756d0d8]

                              • May 18, 2006 at 7:06 PM #13639
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                                  Right, but how to instruct Biztalk that one node is a CDATA node and ignore its contents?

                                  [quote:2194b5c23a=\”nwalters\”]As far as I know there is no schema definition for CDATA. It’s just a statement in XML that temporarily turns off the well-formed-ness parser.

                                  Neal[/quote:2194b5c23a]

                                  • May 19, 2006 at 6:05 PM #13640
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                                      OK I figured this out via this hint
                                      http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid26_gci879720,00.html

                                      Use an XSLT library called xmlchar
                                      http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/xmlchar.html

                                      and in the instance add this line (via pre-processing) (where xmlchar is the href to the library URI)

                                      [code:1:b26201e1f6]<!DOCTYPE ONIXMessage[<!ENTITY % html.4.entities SYSTEM \"xmlchar/html4-all.ent\">%html.4.entities;]>
                                      <ONIXMessage xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:ch=\"http://xmlchar.sf.net/ns#\" …(other declarations) >[/code:1:b26201e1f6]

                                      Don’t forget to add the xmlns:ch declaration and make sure the DOCTYPE root node is your root node.

                                      Pras

                                      • May 19, 2006 at 6:36 PM #13641
                                        community-content

                                          From the suppliers I dont have control over. That was the whole point.

                                          [quote:14d1356a76=\”nwalters\”]The program that creates the XML would have to include the CData tag in the XML itself. Where does your XML come from?

                                          Neal[/quote:14d1356a76]

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