Tidy xml: clean xml data source form and characters

Question

Hi,
the xml data set that I'd like to display with spry includes many special characters such as < and >, which are also used by xml to separate the individual data elements.
How can I replace those when the data are read, so that the data display correctly on my webpage. Currently any data set that has < or > characters is truncated.
I tried a replace function, but that did not work
function TidyXML(region, lookupFunc)
return TidyXML("{abstract}").replace(/\>/, "&gt;");
return TidyXML("{abstract}").replace(/\</, "&lt;");
Thanks for any help,
thorsten

Answer 1

Hi Phil
thanks for your fast reply.
The xml dataset is generated by Endnote, which is a database program 
to organize scientific citations and which has unfortunately only very 
limited xml functionality.
Thanks for the CDATA tipp, I will try that.
t.
Am 12.05.2009 um 21:34 schrieb Phil_W:
Hi,
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You'll need to tidy up the XML file directly as I'd imagine browsers 
such as Firefox and IE will not correctly read the XML dataset let 
alone Spry Data XML.
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Do you have the ability to edit the XML dataset / is it generated 
from a database in the background?
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Is the XML dataset online for us to see? Normal routine is to encode 
the < > and other special characters when the XML file is generated 
or to wrap the data within the XML tags in CDATA tags as below
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