Re: FN-FORUM XML problems

date posted 11th September 2002 19:46

The most obvious problem with this markup is that the ampersands aren't
substituted by the '&' entity.
Like in HTML, the ampersand is a special character in XML so must be treated
specially (luckily using the same entities :) )

Try changing that and seeing what happens.

Also, go visit http://www.w3.org/XML/ for info on the XML standards.

In fact a visit to http://www.w3.org/ is good for most things to do with the
web as they are the arbitor and publisher of most of the 'true' standards .

Mark

(for XML, 2 good books are the Wrox Press 'Professional XML', a bit dated,
but still excellent, and 'XML: Visual Quickstart' - VQuickStart is a little
light, but very accessible)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Beresford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM XML problems


> Hi all
>
> I've got a load of articles stored as XML. Some of the articles contain
> links, which I've marked up like so:
>
>
target="http://www.someurl.co.uk/forums/conversation_display.asp?conversatio
> nID=22&topicID=7&topicName=Something&conversationName=Buy+to+Let">Have
your
> say on this article
>
> However I'm getting an error thrown upsaying that it's expecting a
semicolon
> at the "topicID=" bit. I'm a real begininer at those whole XML marlakey so
> I'm sure I'm missing out something quite elementary. Any suggestions?
>
> Norman
>
>