XML Quiz

Roger L Costello <[email protected]> Tue, 3 May 2022 12:28:10 +0000

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After XML parsing is complete, every occurrence of &amp; will have been replaced by &


  1.  True
  2.  False

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False! If the &amp; is within a CDATA section or within a comment, then it will be unchanged. Otherwise, it will be changed.

Lesson Learned: An XML lexer/parser must perform conditional processing:

IF (&amp; is within a CDATA section or comment) THEN
    OUTPUT("&amp;")
ELSE
    OUTPUT("&")