[jdom-interest] SAXBuilder.setExpandEntities

[Alex Rosen]

> >Problem is that when the document is stored, the character
> entities have been
> >interpreted by JDOM and are replaced with '?' question marks
> in the file. So
> >we never get back what we originally sent. All character entities are
> >replaced by question marks. Pehaps special characters should
> be replaced by
> >character entities by the XMLOutputter then?
> >
>
> Indeed they should be. If that's not happening then it's a bug. It
> could well be a bug in JDOM, but it's also possible it's a bug in
> your code. In particular if you're using a Writer for the output
> rather than an OutputStream, JDOM can't figure out which characters
> it needs to escape because there's no way to determine the underlying
> encoding of the Writer.

... or the file is being stored correctly, but you're viewing it using an
incorrect encoding, or with a font that doesn't support those characters.
Well, I don't know if those things would result in question marks
specificly, but they could cause the file to look wrong in some way when it
really isn't.

Alex