[jdom-interest] Forcing a CDATA section

Paul Libbrecht paul at activemath.org
Wed Mar 31 08:26:59 PDT 2010


I strongly believe the CDATA class serves that purpose.
And, honestly, if it doesn't, it would be a child-game to modify the  
XMLOutputter to do so.

paul


Le 31-mars-10 à 17:22, Richard Gaywood a écrit :

> Hi there.
>
> I am using JDOM to integrate with an API provided to me by a big  
> travel firm. My integration was working fine for my test cases, but  
> failed QA when the tester tried something different. I've now been  
> told by the travel firm that instead of sending
>
> <Key>N GBTM00423004Z</Key>
> I need to send
> <Key><![CDATA[N GBTM00423004Z]]></Key>
>
> Googling has only turned up flamewars on this mailing list about  
> this issue, and I cannot see anything about it in the JDOM API docs.  
> So I ask: is there currently a way to force JDOM to use a CDATA  
> section for a given tag, even where it shouldn't really be necessary?
>
> And before anyone starts another flamewar, I know this is dumb, I  
> know this isn't clean XML, but the travel firm is a big  
> multinational with a hojillion employees that makes zillions of  
> dollars a year. My employer is a small ecommerce outfit. I cannot  
> make them change this, as much as I would like to. It could be  
> worse; one of their competitors we wrote a connector to only  
> supports socket connections that take EDIFACT encoded strings, and  
> they ship us a closed-source binary C library to enable us to talk  
> to the service. Integrating Java into that was a barrel of laughs.

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