Subscribe via RSS
Toggle Submenu
  1. Categories
  2. Recent
  3. Tags
View Replies (2)

Resolved How to sanitize a xml string?

  1. Advice
0
Votes
Undo
  1. Simone Olianti
    Simone Olianti
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Friday, 24 August 2018 07:09 AM UTC

Hi there, is there an easy way in POwerBuilder to "sanitize" a XML string?
I need an advice to exclude all not valid xml unicode characters from a string

any help would be appreciated

tia

  1. PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2. XML
PB2017 R3 - license.appeon did not install
How can I get the user's SID?
Accepted Answer
Bruce Armstrong
Bruce Armstrong Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 24 August 2018 15:45 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # Permalink

We use one of the OWASP Sanitizers to validate input to our applications.  What we ended up doing was installing it in the database (Oracle) and then calling it through a stored procedure (Oracle can create PL/SQL wrappers for java code in the database).

The OWASP HTML Sanitizer may do the trick for you if you can take that  approach.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Java_HTML_Sanitizer_Project

There are other ways of calling Java code from PowerBuilder, the stored procedure method works best for us because it doesn't require anything special on the client.

Comment
There are no comments made yet.
Responses (2)
Chris Pollach @Appeon
Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 24 August 2018 12:44 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

Hi Simone;

  FWIW: the only way that I have done this in the past is to process the XML file via PB's PBDOM feature and then use the POS() method looking for these extraneous characters as the App processes each element's data stream.

Regards ... Chris

Comment
There are no comments made yet.
  • Page :
  • 1


There are no replies made for this question yet.
However, you are not allowed to reply to this question.