[jdom-interest] CDATA inconsistency

[Malachi de AElfweald]

It seems that you should be allowed to enter any data... Then, during output,
you should be choosing the appropriate encoding...  For example, Kanji (sp)
characters should be allowed -- but if you output as ISO-8859-1, it should give
errors.

If you need to pass binary data, which you should be able to do since XML is supposed
to be cross-platform data, might need to be converted into something readable. For
example, using UUENCODE to make sure that it is transmittable over HTTP.

But, I don't think you should be prevented from adding data, as it *could* be valid
given a particular charset encoding (especially since you can make custom charsets).

Malachi

11/2/2002 9:45:08 AM, Duane Morin <dmorin at morinfamily.com> wrote:

>At 11:47 AM 11/2/2002 -0500, bob mcwhirter wrote:
>>I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that MIME exists
>>for a reason.  When all you have a is a hammer (XML) everything looks like
>>a thumb (stuffing random binary in XML).
>
>In  my defense, the original question wasn't "What's a way to get around 
>this?" but rather on the apparent inconsistency in the fact that I could 
>create the CDATA object, write it out, but then when I tried to read it 
>back in, I got IllegalData.  I agree completely that I should never have 
>tried to put it into XML in the first place. The program I wrote is just 
>taking existing text and trying to stuff it into an Element, and I hadn't 
>considered international characters.  I thought that if the CDATA 
>constructor threw an exception or something, or otherwise told me that I 
>had invalid data, then I could catch it and act accordingly before writing 
>it out.  Otherwise I have to test everything before putting it into the 
>Element, even though maybe 1% or less of my data will fit this condition.
>
>Duane
>
>
>
>>         -bob
>>
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