Re: Use ampersand character in setText

Hi Andrea

As others have said, JDOM ensures that the output from the XMLOutputter 
is valid XML. The raw string '&test' is not valid XML.

You do have options. If you really want the raw string, then perhaps you 
want to enclose it in a CDATA section.

CDATA cdata = new CDATA("&test");
Element element = new Element("root");
element.addContent(cdata);
xmloutputter.output(stream,element);

<root><[CDATA[&test]]></root>

That may give you what you want, and it will also be valid XML.

If you want to skip the CDATA section then you can probably put a 
filtering system between JDOM's output stream and the final destination 
stream. That 'filter' can search/replace specific content with invalid 
XML content....

Otherwise you can create your own custom XMLOutputter instance that 
'breaks' the validation process for Text content.

Rolf

On 16/12/2011 6:58 AM, Andrea Pacini wrote:
>
>     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]
>     <mailto:[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
>
>
>

_______________________________________________
To control your jdom-interest membership:
http://www.jdom.org/mailman/options/jdom-interest/[email protected]