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Lets say i have a XML element

<command>
system(" $opt = <STDIN> ")
</command>


in my program i actually used the whole string given between <command>
tags to execute the command.

however putting <STDIN> is not allowed in XML..is there any other
alternatives?

wrote:
> <command>system(" $opt = <STDIN> ")</command>
>
> however putting <STDIN> is not allowed in XML..is there any other
> alternatives?

Use &lt; and &gt;, which are the standard XML representations for the <
and > characters. (Or, of course, you can use numeric character
references, < and > respectively.) If you read the file through
any of the standard XML tools, those will be converted to the angle
brackets automagically as part of the parsing process.


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Sorry, I should have said "use &lt; etcetera in text content". That is,

<command>system(" $opt = &lt;STDIN&gt; ")</command>

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Joe Kesselman wrote:
> wrote:
>> <command>system(" $opt = <STDIN> ")</command>
>>
>> however putting <STDIN> is not allowed in XML..is there any other
>> alternatives?
>
> Use &lt; and &gt;, which are the standard XML representations for the
> < and > characters. (Or, of course, you can use numeric character
> references, < and > respectively.) If you read the file

> through any of the standard XML tools, those will be converted to the
> angle brackets automagically as part of the parsing process.

Could you please tell what the standard XML tools are (name) ? I am
particularly interested in have a "standard" commandline tools for
parsing and validating xml (and html/sgml as a bonus) on my linux
system, and also win32 wouldn't hurt, as I'm frequently using both. I
say command line because I can configure my editor to use it for
checking (it lets me set a path for any validators, compilers, parsers,
etc. Would be great if I could just check HTML and XML documents on the
fly like I can with, say, Perl or c.)

The reason I'm asking is doing a google search on google for XML parser
gave me many useless results, and it's rather hard to tell which one
realy does things right (conforming to standards.)

Thanks.

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Stan R. wrote:

> Could you please tell what the standard XML tools are (name) ? I am
> particularly interested in have a "standard" commandline tools for
> parsing and validating xml (and html/sgml as a bonus) on my linux
> system, and also win32 wouldn't hurt, as I'm frequently using both. I

http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html

Jürgen Kahrs wrote:
> Stan R. wrote:
>
>> Could you please tell what the standard XML tools are (name) ? I am
>> particularly interested in have a "standard" commandline tools for
>> parsing and validating xml (and html/sgml as a bonus) on my linux
>> system, and also win32 wouldn't hurt, as I'm frequently using both. I
>
> http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html

Thank you

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Stan R. wrote:
> Could you please tell what the standard XML tools are (name) ?

Any SAX or DOM parser. XSLT. Anything else built around the XML
specifications.

> particularly interested in have a "standard" commandline tools for
> parsing and validating xml (and html/sgml as a bonus) on my linux
> system, and also win32 wouldn't hurt, as I'm frequently using both.

I generally use Apache Xerces as my parser, unless I've got a Good
Reason for doing something different. Your milage may vary.

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