XPath and '&'

[Tim Anderson]

I am finding that when the XML contains an ampersand in the data ( e.g. <Label>David & Charles</Label> ) then the XPath Parse function returns ERROR. Is there any way to tweak the XPATH Parse code to get round this?

I am already defying the inputstream to UTF=8

Thanks

[beverly]

Can you pre-process the source XML so that the "&" becomes "&amp;"?

[Tim Anderson]

Hi Beverly

Done some checking and I was using the XML returned from a web tool to test parsing, but I will be using a ScriptMaster routine to get the XML in the solution - the ScriptMaster module is returning &amp; so this was a non-issue!

Thanks anyway

Tim

[john renfrew]

Tim

What about XMlSlurper functionality built into Groovy to get the data if you know the structure?

[Tim Anderson]

John,

The XPath Parse function works perfectly with the code returned from the ScriptMaster function, but not from the MWS Scratchpad!

Tim