Re: Use ampersand character in setText

Andrea Pacini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jdom.general
Message-ID <CACjey_FW-uSvvkixBLY=2bRbVr8Un_DEJBx23ko05ewzUAYUKw@mail.gmail.com>
>
> We have necessity to write, in the final XML, the string &test and not the
> string &amp;test
> How can we do ?
>
> 2011/12/16 Grzegorz <[email protected]>
>
>>  according to Jdom FAQ ( http://www.jdom.org/docs/faq.html#a0290 ) , I
>>> tried to write the string
>>>
>>> &test
>>>
>>> using this statement:
>>>
>>> root.setText("\u0026test");
>>>
>>> where \u0026 is the Unicode code for ampersand character.
>>>
>>> The output is:
>>>
>>> &amp;test
>>>
>>> Where is the error ?
>>>
>>
>> There is no error. What is wrong? It is a special character in XML and as
>> such it must be escaped.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Grzegorz
>>
>
>

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