[jdom-interest] Valid and Invalid characters.

[Brett McLaughlin]

> How do parsers in general handle invalid characters such as: <>
>
> If someone where to create a new document and call a method similar to
> addContent("<>");
>
> Would the parsers transform the <> to escape sequences.

Yes

>
> Also how does a parser handle <> when parsing a document?

Escapes them.

>
> I have a servlet where customers submit dat to, but I canot handle what
data
> they enter through the HTTP form. I need to be able to process every
> character sent.

JDOM would work fine, I think.

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Brett McLaughlin
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