Use of CDATA in context documents

[Frank Warmerdam]

Pagurek,Debbie [NCR] wrote:
> My project requires some special characters, such as subscripts, to be
> used in abstracts and titles. We tried to embed CDATA into our context
> documents e.g.
> <![CDATA[<sub>2.5</sub>]]>
> But our Chameleon application croaked. We understand that this is likely
> due to the fact that MapServer itself doesn't parse the CDATA part
> properly.
> 
> We are using MS v4.6.1, Chameleon version 2.2, and PHP 4.3.11 which I
> know are really out of date now. Can anyone tell me if using CDATA in
> context docs is supported in more recent versions of MapServer? If it
> isn't, are their any plans to incorporate this?

Debbie,

GDAL/OGR's 1.4.0 version includes CDATA support in the minixml parser.  Are
you in a position to upgrade?

Otherwise Bart's scheme to avoid CDATA would likely be best.

Best regards,

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