PK58623: CANNOT SAVE CDATA IN HTML COMPONENT

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Cannot save CDATA in HTML Component
  
  
  JavaScript with CDATA in an HTML Component causes content to
  disappear when saved and an exception is thrown. This is because
  we save the html component content as CDATA. When the content
  contains CDATA, we get nested CDATA tags, which the parser can't
  parse. Solution is to break up any CDATA close tags into
  separate containing CDATA elements
  

Local fix

• Save as text component instead.
  

Problem summary

• Detailed Problem Description:
  When you save an HTML component that contains one or more CDATA
  elements in the content, the save operation appears to complete
  successfully.
  However, when you later edit or view the HTML component, its
  content is empty.
  
  The following errors appear in SystemOut.log:
  [12/6/07 15:35:06:846 CST] 0000005a TransformerUt W
  JCR_REPOSITORY_EXCEPTION_CAUGHT_1
  [12/6/07 15:35:06:851 CST] 0000005a TransformerUt W
  java.io.IOException: Parse error at line 30
  (org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "m_text" must
  be terminated by the matching end-tag "</m_text>".)
  
  A CDATA element is a section of text within XML or SGML that is
  to be treated by the parser as only character data, not as
  markup.
  
  CDATA element syntax is as follows: a CDATA element starts with
  the string "<![CDATA[" and ends with the next occurrence of the
  string "]]>".
  Note that this means that a CDATA element cannot contain the
  string "]]>", which means that CDATA elements may not be nested.
  
  
  Problem Analysis:
  When saving HTML components, IBM Workplace Web Content
  Management encodes the entire content of the component as CDATA.
  If the component content itself contains CDATA elements, this
  results in nested CDATA elements, which results in invalid xml
  (as described above).
  The solution to nesting CDATA elements is to break the inner end
  tag "]]>" into two segments across two separate outer CDATA
  elements.
  

Problem conclusion

• Problem Solution:
  Modified xml save code so that it correctly handles nesting of
  CDATA elements as described above.
  
  INTERIM FIXES FROM FIX CENTRAL ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS APAR:
  
  6.0.1.3
  
  http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral/swgquickorde
  r?brandid=2&productid=Workplace%20Web%20Content%20Management&fix
  es=6.0.1.3-WCM-PK58623
  
  6.0.1.2
  
  http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral/swgquickorde
  r?brandid=2&productid=Workplace%20Web%20Content%20Management&fix
  es=6.0.1.2-WCM-PK58623
  
  You will need to cut/paste the entire URL into a browser to
  resolve the address.
  

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WRKPLC WEB CON

• Fixed component ID

  5724I2900

Applicable component levels

• R600 PSY

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