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alex_panganiban
Contributor
5 years ago

XML Generator, Entity referenced, but not declared

I’m having trouble using the XML Generator with data that contains special symbols and characters. All the usual suspects (<, >, &, ", ', ) have been taken care of by using the HTML notations <, >, &...
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alex_panganiban
Contributor
5 years ago

I tried playing with the “escape special characters” option, but it just dropped my special charcter data instead of leaving the escaped notations as they were.

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mbowen
Employee
5 years ago

Hmmm… Frustrating indeed. Let me conduct an experiment too.

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    alex_panganiban
    Contributor
    5 years ago

    I’m wondering if there’s a way to make the XML Generator and the XML Formatter ignore escaped codes and leave them as they are instead of rendering them. It would be nice if &reg/&174 behaved the same way as &lt and &gt

    Thanks for helping me look at this!

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      mbowen
      Employee
      5 years ago

      I still need to investigate this. For the Formatter, do you check the “Format as canonical XML” checkbox?

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        alex_panganiban
        Contributor
        5 years ago

        Hi, no I am not checking “Format as canonical XML.” I do check “Strict XSD Output.”