[jdom-interest] Character Data translation (ï etc.... please help).

Jason Hunter jhunter at collab.net
Wed Jan 17 13:52:03 PST 2001


> For example, I am using the samples program "SAXBuilderDemo.java" from JDOM
> Beta5 and with the input line as follow:
> 
>  <JavaXML:Title>Java &#239; XML</JavaXML:Title>
> 
> and the output from "SAXBuilderDemo" which used XMLOutputter is as follow:
> 
>    <JavaXML:Title>Java <C3><AF> XML</JavaXML:Title>
> 
> The <C3><AF> is the extendted character that does not get translate back to
> an entity.

We'll need to investigate what would be the best behavior in a situation
like this.  Right now XMLOutputter escapes special characters, but not
hard-to-print characters.  If people have opinions, pipe up.

-jh-





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