[jdom-interest] Ampersand question

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 7:20 AM -0400 7/14/00, tsasala at hifusion.com wrote:
>
>	True.  But this outputs XML and we need HTML in
>some cases.  It's my crappy code the does 'work' all the
>time.  I just *assumed* that getSerializedForm would
>output the & instead of &.  & is what I think
>of as a serialized form, not just &.
>

This is a temporary bug. It will be fixed when take away all the 
getSerializedForm() methods and put their functionality in some other 
class. (Which class that is we're still arguing about.) Indeed it was 
issues like this that led us to decide that we really did need to put 
them in a different class.

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