I get the same behavior with a literal value. option.addAttribute("value", "&blah");
if( value.equals(selected) ){ option.addAttribute("selected", "selected"); } if(one || (first != null && last == null) ) option.setText( encodeXML(value) ); else{ if(last != null) option.setText( encodeXML( DOMTools.trim(rs.getString(last)) ) ); else option.setText("blah & blah"); produces an XML error with this output: <option value="&blah">blah & blah</option> Evan Kirkconnell wrote: > The database contains: D&G | Dumfries & Galloway Region > > With this code, I get an XML parse error because my response type is > text/xml, and when I view the source(in FF) I get: > > <option value="D&G">Dumfries & Galloway Region</option> > > public static String encodeXML(String input){ > return input; > /* > StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(input); > DOMTools.replace(sb, "&", "&", false); > DOMTools.replace(sb, "<", "<", false); > DOMTools.replace(sb, ">", ">", false); > return sb.toString(); > */ > } > > When I take out the comments and do the manual replace then I get & > > I would guess that's it has to do with character encoding except that > it's working correctly for the value set with addAttribute. Maybe I'll > give it a shot with a literal and see what happens. > > --Evan > > Edwin Dankert wrote: > >> I can't reproduce your problem ... >> >> Document document = DocumentHelper.createDocument(); >> Element element = document.addElement("test"); >> >> element.setText("<&"); >> >> try { >> XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(System.out); >> writer.write(document); >> } catch (Exception e) { >> e.printStackTrace(); >> } >> >> Regards, >> Edwin >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > dom4j-user mailing list > dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user