Re: Use ampersand character in setText

Mattias Jiderhamn <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:14:24 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.jdom.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

If you want to create invalid XML you probably don't want to try to 
force an XML API to help you out...

</Mattias>

----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Use ampersand character in setText
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:58:56 +0100
From: Andrea Pacini <[email protected]>

 >
 > 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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