[jdom-interest] <ol Type="Unordered">

[Bruce Altner]

My application accepts embedded html in a textarea form field, which it 
stores within an element in a XML document along with other data from the 
form. Because I also use a textarea form field to edit it, I have to 
convert back and forth between the stored form (which includes "<" and ">" 
in many tags, and "&lt;" and "&gt;", which is the version passed to and 
from the form.

In order for me to store the tagged text using JDOM, I read in the form 
field via a servlet, do a simple string replacement, wrap it between 
"<root>" and "</root>" and then build a small subdocument using the 
SAXBuilder, which I use to extract back the text as an element, with all 
the text and html markup as child elements.

This works fine, except there are some weird things happening that I don't 
understand. One of them is the unexpected, and unwanted, inclusion of the 
attribute Type="Unordered" whenever the text includes the <ol> or <ul> 
tags. I cannot figure out
why this is happening but assumed that it must be something in the 
sax.build process. I could leave it in but sometimes it gets put in more 
than once, which generates a parsing error.

Does anyone know where this comes from and how to disable it?

Thanks,
Bruce