Re: Accessing mixed content in XML

I gather this isn't what you want to hear, but you'll have to escape that HTML to get it into XML. For example:

    <argument>&lt;img src="test.jpg"&gt;</argument>
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If you don't then you don't have valid XML and no XML parser I've ever seen is going to parse the file successfully.

-sam

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Re^2: Accessing mixed content in XML by Joost (Canon) on Aug 09, 2005 at 23:18 UTC
You are right that the data as stated isn't XML, but if the OP is willing to settle for `<argument><img src="test.jpg"/></argument>` [download] (Note the ending slash of the img tag) - you could go ahead with something as simple as XML::Simple, provided you're willing to check the type of the node. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Accessing mixed content in XML by samtregar (Abbot) on Aug 10, 2005 at 03:11 UTC
Sure, that works fine for the tiny example shown, but it won't work in the arbitrary case. HTML cannot be trivially transformed into XML in many cases. -sam	[reply]
Re^2: Accessing mixed content in XML by anthski (Scribe) on Aug 09, 2005 at 23:10 UTC
Sam, I'm quite happy to hear that suggestion as it's easily implemented and works perfectly for what I want to do. Thanks for your help. Very much appreciated.	[reply]