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CDATA should work. Do you have an example?

If you add CDATA block it should get parsed.

Please find attached a sample POC on how to add the CDATA in BW and get it parsed successfully.

If you dont want to use CDATA block just want to pass individual strings you can just use a render-xml activity in between and then pass the render-xm string to the parse-xml activity.

Hi Yeshodhan,

You've got to be careful with blanket '&' replacements as well. I remember having to deal with a system where sometimes you would get named entities, like '<' and other times you would get '&'.

You can use biterscripting for parsing XML with special characters.

A sample XML:

<expression>

<type>arithmetic</type>

<syntax>(X+Y)</syntax>

</expression>

<expression>

<type>boolean</type>

<syntax>((X+Y)<(Z+3))&&(3>A)</syntax>

</expression>

Sample biterscripting code to get the <syntax>es from the above sample XML:

var str xml, node

cat "http://www.abc_xyz.com/path/to/file.xml" > $xml

while ( { sen -r -c "^{<syntax&\>&</syntax&\>}" $xml } > 0 )

do

# Get <syntax...>...</syntax...>

stex -r -c "^<syntax&\>&</syntax&\>^" $xml > $node

# Strip off <syntax...>

stex -r -c "^<syntax&\>^]" $node > null

# Strip off </syntax...>

stex -r -c "[^</syntax&\>^" $node > null

# Display $node

echo $node

done

Will display

(X+Y)
((X+Y)<(Z+3))&&(3>A)