[brianhsu]

I'm trying read a simple XML file using arc.xml, but it seems when XML file contain CDATA, it will crash. I didn't find ticket about this.

Is there anything wrong in my code or XML file?

sample.xml

[ChristianK]

You'll have to wait for Clay to be around to get a definite answer to that question, but I presume that Arc's xml module only understands a subset of xml. It's meant to parse layout xml files for Arc's gui subsystem and isn't intended as a full blown bells-and-whistles xml parser.

[clayasaurus]

Don't use the CDATA tag, just do this...

[Carlos]

Clay, I don't know what brianhsu is doing, but you have to admit that what you said is not really a helpful solution. Either he wants to have CDATA because he thinks he will need it in the future, or (even worse) he is receiving the XML from a third party and thus can't modify how the XML is created.
I'm sorry if that was too blunt. I'll go back to finishing homework now.

[clayasaurus]

Alright...

Currently the parser doesn't support the CDATA tag. Can you please explain to me what you need the CDATA tag for?

I looked it up, and all it seems to do is let the parser ignore the data in the CDATA tag. Could you simply use XML comments <!-- comments --> instead?

Are you using a third party XML file and trying to parse it?

Please explain more clearly why you need the CDATA tag and how you plan to use it, (edit: and I'll think about implementing it, but I need more explanation for it) thanks.

edit: Also tell me what version of Arc you are using, thanks.

~ Clay

[csauls]

The text in the CDATA section is not actually ignored, it is just left unparsed, which makes it ideal for -- for example -- embedding scripting language code, or text from a resource which cannot be reasonably trusted not to violate proper XML textual syntax, such as using the &lt; entity rather than "<".

Put another way: the text between "<![CDATA[" and "]]>" is left as-is and otherwise treated as "just" another block of text. Its the XML string literal.
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[clayasaurus]

Sounds reasonable enough, here's a ticket: http://www.dsource.org/projects/arclib/ticket/94

Unless someone else writes a patch, I can not guarantee it will be taken care of soon.

Also, a question about CDATA tag.

What happens with

<xml>
Test
<![CDATA[
<weird xml text data>
]]>
</xml>

Concatenation?

[csauls]

As I recall, it'd be two separate text nodes.
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Chris Nicholson-Sauls