This seems to be a long known bug in GWT (reported with high priority in 2007....) that somehow never got fixed: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=1011
On Mar 24, 5:09 pm, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does this happen in all browsers, or just one? GWT uses the browser to > perform the XML document/node manipulation. > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:34 AM, googelybear <googelyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > It seems that GWT DOES escape the semicolon character but actually > > this is a valid XML character and should not be escaped according to > >http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-referencesand > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_re... > > > Here's a snippet of how this error can be reproduced: > > <code> > > public static String escapeXml(String xml) { > > Document document= XMLParser.createDocument(); > > Text textNode= document.createTextNode(xml); > > return textNode.toString(); > > } > > </code> > > > calling this method with ";" yields ";". Semi is not defined as a > > standard entity and thus produces errors in my backend. > > > Is this really a bug in the GWT XML parser or is my escaping method > > wrong? > > > thanks for any feedback, > > > Dennis > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
