[jdom-interest] Problems with "<" and ">" in element.addContent()

Wed Jan 2 06:09:34 PST 2002

Le mercredi 2 janvier 2002, à 12:18 PM, Ann Björklund a écrit :

>  Hi
>  
> I have a problem when I try to add content included the 
> signs "<" and ">" to an element.
> I write:
>
> element.addContent("<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>");
>
> and then use a XMLOutputter to write it out to a file.In my 
> file I got the result
>
> &lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;
>
> I want to have "<" instead of "&lt;" and ">" instead of "&gt;".
> Does anyone know what Iím doing wrong?

I think you should then use the CDATA class. Something like:
    element.addContent(new CDATA("<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>"));

The thing is that XML does not allow < outside of a CDATA 
element, thought > should be ok anywhere.

Cheers,

   -- Sébastien.
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