Hi Jorg, I'm sorry, you are absolutely right. I was under the strange impression that attributes could contain valid XML characters without escaping. This was stupid. I feel better now.
Thank you On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@swisspost.com > wrote: > Hi Perdo, > > Pedro Santos wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I've been hitting my head on the wall because I want variables in my > > classes to be serialized as attributes. This I'm being able to do. The > > only problem is that some strings that express conditions (e.g. "i < 3") > > still get escaped even though it's not necessary. > > Why do you think that attribute values should *not* be escaped? XStream > uses > by default either its own XML writer implementation or - in case of a StAX- > based driver - the StAX XMLOutputFactory. Even the latter escape attribute > values. > > > Is there any way to turn off this behavior in XStream? > > No by default, but you may overwrite PrettyPrintWriter.writeAttributeValue > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > -- Pedro Santos "O que mais preocupa não é o grito dos violentos, dos corruptos, dos desonestos, dos sem ética. O que mais preocupa é o silêncio dos bons" Martin Luther King “Learning is experiencing. Everything else is just information.” Albert Einstein