writing XML from a string

[Gregory Freeland]

I've been using Xerces-C DOM and have run into an issue when writing to an 
XML file.  Basically, to write the XML file, I build up a DOMDocument, 
adding nodes and such.  Once the document is complete, the DOMWriter is used 
to write the node to a file.  I have cases though, where I'll have a string 
containing XML characters, and several levels of descendant nodes. 
Essentially, I want to write the string directly to the file as a child 
node.

For example, the code snippet below will create a new DOM element, add an 
attribute, and add a child text node.  My problem occurs when the XMLCh* 
variable "content" is a string that looks something like this:

"<Child>Test Content</Child>"

the resulting XML file will have the XML format characters translated.

&lt;Child&gt;Test Content&lt;/Child&gt;

So is it possible to write the above XML string as a Text node, while 
retaining the XML formatting?

Thanks in advance,
Greg

//////Begin source code

//first, create a new dataitem element
DOMElement* dataitemElem = m_DOMDocument->createElement( 
X("Construction") );
//create and set the type attribute
dataitemElem->setAttribute(X("Type"), type);

//create a child text node of the new dataitem element
DOMText* dataitemElemVal = m_DOMDocument->createTextNode(content);
dataitemElem->appendChild((DOMNode*)dataitemElemVal);

//append the new child element to the root element
DOMElement* rootElem = m_DOMDocument->getDocumentElement();
rootElem->appendChild(dataitemsElem);

///////End source code
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