[jdom-interest] / character in data

[Iain Darroch]

Thanks for that.  A case of not looking carefully enough
Iain

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Richard Cook wrote:

> at the risk of using a controversial method, looks like you are calling new
> Element("/users/..")
> new Element("location").setText("/users/...") works for me.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org]On
> Behalf Of Iain Darroch
> Sent: 13 July 2001 12:27
> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: [jdom-interest] / character in data
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I wish to store the full path to a program in XML
>
> I do this with the following
>
> ...
>
> <location>/users/myname/mydir</location>
>
> ....
>
> However I get the following exception raised
>
> org.jdom.IllegalNameException: The name "/users/myname/mydir" is not legal
> for JDOM/XML elements: XML names cannot begin with the character "/".
>         at org.jdom.Element.setName(Element.java, Compiled Code)
>         at org.jdom.Element.<init>(Element.java, Compiled Code)
>         at org.jdom.Element.<init>(Element.java, Compiled Code)
>
>
> Has anyone else had the same problem?  As far as I was aware all parsers
> whould allow this.  Does anyone have a solution?
>
> many thanks
>
> Iain
>
> ---------------------------
> Iain Darroch
>
>
> "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not
> achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be
> "meetings."
>
>
> "No man is an Island unless his name is Jura"
>
> _______________________________________________
> To control your jdom-interest membership:
> http://lists.denveronline.net/mailman/options/jdom-interest/youraddr@yourhos
> t.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> To control your jdom-interest membership:
> http://lists.denveronline.net/mailman/options/jdom-interest/youraddr@yourhost.com
>

---------------------------
Iain Darroch


"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not
achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be
"meetings."


"No man is an Island unless his name is Jura"