RE: entity reference help, please!

[Mark Sizer]

OK. It is easy. The setText method does take care of it. I added the CDATA instead of Text back when I was using xml4j. Xerces works differently. Unfortunately I now have this behavior:

 

String property = ">";

Text textValue = doc.createTextNode(property);

 

String XMLValue = serialized doc;

 

Text textValue = superdoc.createTextNode(XMLValue);

 

The result is ">" - not really what I'm hoping for.

 

Any thoughts?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sizer
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:05 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: entity reference help, please!

I've spent all day trying to find out how to replace characters with entity references and have had no luck. I don't even want to use custom entity references, just &amp, &lt, and &gt so the parser won't choke reading what I'm outputting.

 

One would think that the Text node setText/getText methods would take care of it (or at least throw an exception if you give it characters that will break the parser), but it doesn't.

 

How do I convert a Java String from raw characters to an XML-safe representation?

 

Thanks for any help,

Mark R. Sizer,
CyberCrop.com

P.S. Is this as easy as I think it should be and I'm just really stupid today? Meanwhile, I'm going to write the code myself.