Thanks Don. Not a bad idea but CDATA sections just make parsing a pain in the butt. :P -Tim
-----Original Message----- From: McHodgkins Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XML reformatting Not sure this is the best way but it is one way. You can use the CDATA Section for XML. CDATA sections begin with the string "<![CDATA[" and end with the string "]]>":] Here is an example <![CDATA[<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>]]> Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hi all, I have an application that uses XML data from a Servlet. The XML is not in a file. Rather, it is dynamically generated. I have problems with some special chars within the actual xml files themselves. For example if a value in the XML was "children < 3". I would have a problem cause "<" is a reserved symbol. I have to replace each occurence of this and other reserved symbols with "<" and other html/xml friendly versions of these. The function to do so is messy and long for something like this. My question is: is there some type of utility class that already does this? And if so, is the performance any better than writing one urself? I know that response.encodeURL can encode an URL to do something like this but this is not a URL. Its an entire XML document. Thanks, -Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 727-738-3000 x6549 >> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
