Re: Native XML in string parameters

On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:24 AM, kereszt_hu wrote:
> According to XML-RPC spec, parameter value of <string> cannot  
> contain < or &. This means, sending XML as a parameter should be  
> escaped. Even though, it is going to be part of another XML. Am I  
> right?

> Maybe, I've gone too far. Please, clarify me either how to pass XML  
> as a parameter value or XML-RPC is not for this use and I must crack  
> down to simpler parameters or encoded (xml or base64) values.


The safest approach is to taken encoded XML and base-64 encode it as a  
binary payload.  This way you don't have to know or are about the  
encoding of the payload XML.


   -Fred

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Fred Drake   <fdrake at acm.org>



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