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| | | AW: [jdom-interest] escape characters within a element text | AW: [jdom-interest] escape characters within a element text 2003-10-02 - By Marcel Stor
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jdom-interest-admin@(protected) wrote:
> hi
> if i have a string which is a xml, but contains invalid
> characters within the elements text, how can i create a xml document
> out of it.
> If the string is as below
>
> <person>
> <name>jack </name>
> <description> height of jack is < 6 feet </description>
</person>
>
> here the description text contains the character '<', so if we
> try to create a dom document using the SAXBuilder it gives an
> exception. Is there a way in JDOM to say replace those characters
> with the required escape characters?
>
> before creating the dom document?
>
> regards
> niroshan
Maybe I'm totally missing the point here...
If you can't guarantee that the input delivered to your app is valid XML
why don't you do a couple of string replacement operations? You could
implement a service method which does all that work for you (e.g.
replace < with <, replace & with &, etc.)
Regards,
Marcel
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