[jdom-interest] question (help)

[Michael Engelhart]

Awesome - thanks!

Mike

> Michael Engelhart wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yesterday I posted about a problem I'm having with the
> > getAttributeValue(String name) method in the Element class which I didn't 
> > get a response to so I'm reposting since my question may not have been very 
> > clear.  Here goes:
> > If I have an attribute value which is an "escaped" string, the escape
> > slash is removed upon retrieval.  Can anyone tell me if this is a bug or 
> > expected behavior?  If it's expected, please tell me why that happens so I 
> > can try and come up with a workaround.  The reason (in case anyone is
> > questioning) that I have escaped strings is that i'm keeping a bunch of 
> > regular expressions stored in an xml document for retrieval and am using 
> > the ORO (now Apache) Perl utilities matching classes which require escaped 
> > strings in their patterns like this:
> > m/MAX\\s+([0-9]+)/s
> >
> > which the getAttributeValue() mangles into:
> > m/MAX\s+([0-9]+)/s
> >
> > not the single slash after "MAX" in the returned string.   I can't figure 
> > out why this would be the correct behavior but maybe it is.
>
> Hey, Mike-
>
>   For sure, it's a bug. I've got it pn my list to look at and just
> haven't gotten a chance yet ... I'll try to fix that this weekend. Sorry 
> for the delay in a response ;-)
>
> -Brett
>