Jon Skeet wrote:
>
> [In web.xml]
>
> > <param-value>c:\\tomcat\\webapps\\Root\\JSPbook\\Chap04\\sounds</param-value>
>
> Surely those backslashes don't need to be escaped, do they? XML doesn't
> care about \ and I don't believe Java itself does either.
>
> If this were a properties file it would be a different matter, but I'm
> pretty sure you can just use
>
> <param-value>c:\tomcat\webapps\Root\JSPbook\Chap04\sounds</param-value>
>
> Anyone have more info?
>
> Jon
As I recall, thats the way Java writes a String like that when
you do a Properties save( stream, header) method call.
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