Re: Problem with serializing Text Data

Hi Chris,

I would generally expect any XML serializer to escape the '<' and '>' 
characters that appear in textual content when writing to an OutputStream. 
If they're not being escaped that is odd.

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]

Chris Bowditch <[email protected]> wrote on 05/29/2013 05:25:42 
AM:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. The code to serialize is fairly straight forward:
> 
>          Properties serializerProperties = properties;
>          serializerProperties = 
> OutputPropertiesFactory.getDefaultMethodProperties(Method.XML);
>          Serializer serializer = 
> SerializerFactory.getSerializer(serializerProperties);
>          serializer.setOutputStream(m_out);
> 
> and then serializer.asContentHandler() is called to get a content 
> handler and the SAX Events from the parsing chain are tied to that. I've 

> used a debugger to examine the SAX Events and the below text is treated 
> as characters event all the way through. There are no calls to 
> startCDATA()/endCDATA() around this text.
> 
> The XML itself is provided by a customer of mine. The mixture of escaped 

> and unescaped characters in the CDATA definition is very unusual, 
> although still well formed, I don't know the reason why my customer has 
> choosen to use such a strange sequence.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 28/05/2013 18:06, Michael Glavassevich wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > What XML API are you using for serializing your document?
> >
> > A code snippet showing what you did might help.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Michael Glavassevich
> > XML Technologies and WAS Development
> > IBM Toronto Lab
> > E-mail: [email protected]
> > E-mail: [email protected]
> >
> > Chris Bowditch <[email protected]> wrote on 05/28/2013 
12:41:33
> > PM:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I've been searching JIRA for any issue serializing text data that
> >> contains CDATA keyword (but is not a fully formed CDATA section) I
> >> couldn't see one, so I'm posting here before I starting debugging the
> >> Serializer code to see if anyone has seen this issue.
> >>
> >> In the input XML we have the following text node:
> >>
> >> &lt;value&gt;&lt;![CDATA[-1]]&gt;&lt;/value&gt;
> >>
> >> Our application is using Xerces to parse this XML and its correctly
> >> recognized as a character event. If I try to serialize this same
> >> character event, the resulting XML ends up like:
> >>
> >> <value><![CDATA[-1]]]]><![CDATA[></value>
> >>
> >> This looks wrong to me and results in a malformed XML File.
> >>
> >> Any input would be welcomed.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
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