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Ovid on 2006-12-21T14:37:51

One of our developers sent me a snippet of "code" from a third party product. Seems it's "programmed" in XML. The snippet (huge snippet) he sent me had VBScript embedded in a CDATA section. This VBScript modifies the XML it's contained in ...

That smells like one of Microsoft's idea...

bart on 2006-12-21T21:03:09

... to "help" the XSLT processor by processing the difficult parts in an easier language.

I had heard of it before, but haven't seen it in real life.. But now, I looked it up, and found an online article. Is this what you were talking about?

Terminate it!

djberg96 on 2006-12-21T21:20:31

This VBScript modifies the XML it's contained in

Kill it, quick, before it becomes self-aware!

Re:Terminate it!

jordan on 2006-12-29T15:49:24

Kill it, quick, before it becomes self-aware!
Oh oh. We haven't heard from Ovid lately. It might have been too late. We can only hope someone isolated the machine from the Internet.

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