Reopen issue: Character entities are escaped too aggressively
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Key: AXIS-2342
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2342
Project: Apache Axis
Type: Bug
Components: Serialization/Deserialization
Versions: 1.0
Environment: Operating System: All
Platform: All
Reporter: Thiago Jung Bauermann
Assigned to: Axis Developers Mailing List
We are using SOAP to send XML documents from client to server and back. The
documents contain a lot of non-ASCII data. This is encoded as UTF-8 by us.
However, when retrieved from an Axis server, Axis will escape almost all of our
characters into character entities (so &#...;) This means messages become about
three times as big as they have to for 'international' documents, which for us
is a large performance problem. I narrowed down the problem to
XMLUtils::xmlEncodeString
that has the code:
if (((int)chars[i]) > 127) {
strBuf.append("&#");
strBuf.append((int)chars[i]);
strBuf.append(";");
This seems unnecessary to me, as Axis will send all messages in UTF-8 anyway,
for which no encoding is necessary (and should encoding be configurable, I feel
this should be escaped elsewhere).
Is there any reason for this code, I commented it out and it seemed to have no
adverse effect on our application (apart from reduced network traffic)?
Tested with 1.0, also looked up in the sources of 1.1-rc2.
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