[jdom-interest] generating html content with jdom

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:14:27AM +0200, Noam Tamim wrote:
>
> *  Is it acceptable to use jdom (or any other dom-based application) for
> creating html documents, or I should stick to just out.println() the
> elements myself?

Sure. Why not? As long as you accept the limitations of XMLOutputter
wrt whitespace and stuff.  JDOM generates street-legal close tags for 
<br /> and the like.

> *  what's the best way to send a space character? I mean, there's a table
> cell (<td>) that's supposed to be empty. With "standard" html I'd use
> "<td>&nbsp;</td>".  Currently what I have is this:
>  new Element("td").addContent(new EntityRef("#160"));
> Is this the right solution?

I'd think new EntityRef("nbsp") would work fine.

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