how do I deal with special characters?

[David Narvaez]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com> wrote:
> So the input data looks like:
> <photo><title>one side clear & one snowy</title><id>8441049</id><views>318</views><URL>http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericsbinaryworld/8441049/</URL><JPEG>farm1.staticflickr.com/8/8441049_6d70c1faac_m.jpg</JPEG></photo><
>
> There are plenty of non-alpha numeric characters that work, but apparently there is an issue with ampersands (&).  Perhaps I can just write some code to get rid of those.

There's plenty of code that deals with that. In general, you never
want to write XML without proper escaping first; in this case escaping
could actually happen at the XmlListModel level. For a quick fix,
escape all of the string() values below.

> The function it's going into is:
>
>
>  XmlListModel{
>             id:feedModel
>             xml:  window.currentGroup
>             query: "/photos/photo"
>             XmlRole { name: "title"; query: "title/string()"}
>             XmlRole { name: "views"; query: "views/string()"}
>             XmlRole { name: "url"; query: "URL/string()"}
>             XmlRole { name: "jpeg"; query: "JPEG/string()"}
>             XmlRole { name: "photo"; query: "id/string()"}
>         }

David E. Narvaez