So if I wanted to <Element>.setText(" ") and <Attribute>.setValue("Apples & Oranges"), that's just not gonna work, right?
Is there some crazy way to do <Element>.add( <Entity> )? And maybe the entity returns " " when you call asXML() on it or something? I dunno... It'd be nice if the javadoc had more comments than like "Writes the given |Entity| <http://www.dom4j.org/apidocs/org/dom4j/Entity.html>." for <XMLWriter>.write( <Entity> ) --Evan Edwin Dankert wrote: > I believe your problem is exactly the opposite ... > > You want to set the following text: > test="a & b" > > which should automatically be escaped to > test="a & b" > > This is what dom4j should do out of the box. > > However if you want to do: > test="a &test; b" > > dom4j (out of the box) would convert this to: > test="a &test; b" > > Which would make the entity reference totally useless, > so use code in the previous mail if you want dom4j to > generate: > > test="a &test; b" > > Regards, > Edwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user