Hi all,
I have an element with an attribute typed as xs:string. I want to write
a document where this attribute contains formatting characters such as
tab and linefeed. When I go to write them out, they show up as
formatting in the resulting document, but they are not preserved when
read back in. For example:
I write in my generated code:
Description d;
d.setValue("One\nTwo\nThree");
This looks like:
<Description value="One
Two
Three"/>
in the output, but it becomes "One Two Three" when read back in since
the whitespace is ignored, I assume. I tried using the
setSaveSubstituteCharacters trick with XmlOptions, mapping newline,
carriage return and tab to HEXADECIMAL, but that's even worse; if I
pretty print, it turns all the pretty print tabs into hex codes, and
still doesn't affect attribute values, the only thing I actually want
escaped! I tried escaping myself by grabbing the string before calling
setValue and using .replaceAll("\n" "
"), but XMLBeans outsmarts me
by escaping the ampersand, so the resulting file looks like:
<Description value="One&#xA;Two&#xA;Three"/>
which corrupts the value. I guess if I could write the escaped string
directly to the file, that would work, but I feel like I can't be the
only one with this problem. Maybe there's some XmlOptions setting I'm
missing? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Elias Holman
Stottler Henke Associates
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