[jdom-interest] CDATA sections in XMLOutputter

[Brett McLaughlin]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> Brett,
> 
> You put the following comment in the printElement() method when what
> you're printing is the string content of an element:
>    /*
>     * XXX: We handle the 5 XML 1.0 entities
>     *   but what about CDATA? (brett)
>     */
> 
> My thinking is that as long as we're escaping &, <, and > (and we are)
> CDATA sections aren't a problem. When an element is passed to this
> method, it won't contain a CDATA section. If there was one in the
> original document it will have been resolved to pure text. Furthermore,
> by escaping < and > we won't accidentally get any illegal CDATA section
> delimiters in the output either. So I think we're fine as is. Do you
> concur? Can I take out this comment?

Yup, and yup. Either it's a normal element, or if we ever add CDATA in,
then a CDATA, so either way, we're covered.

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