Adding character references to a DOM object

Hi everyone,

I'm building an XML DOM using the JAXP APIs. I cannot find a method in the
org.w3c.dom.Document object to add a character reference to the node. I
tried to add it as a text node that contains the character reference but I
got the &#number; in the serialized XML instead. Is there a way I can do
this?

Also, am I sending to the correct mailing list, cause I'm not really sure.
If not, please excuse me and direct me to the correct one.

Thanks,
Tarek Nabil