[jdom-interest] SAXHandler / CDATA / entities

[Ingo Struck]

Hi folks,

the inability of jdom to cope with CDATA sections is really a great
drawback.
To be halfway useful, at least the character escaping should work properly
(i.e. encoding of the five "evil" chars AMP, LT, GT, QUOTE, APOS).
I propose the following fix in SAXHandler java, such that the numerical 
escaping (with the great advantage of uniform length for all escaped chars)
works as well:

public void startEntity(String name) throws SAXException {
  [...]
        // Ignore DTD references, and translate the standard 5
        if ((!inDTD) &&
            (!name.equals("amp")) && (!name.equals( "#38" )) && (!name.equals( 
"#x26" ))
            && (!name.equals("lt")) && (!name.equals( "#60" )) && 
(!name.equals( "#x3C" ))
            && (!name.equals("gt")) && (!name.equals( "#62" )) && 
(!name.equals( "#x3E" ))
            && (!name.equals("apos")) && (!name.equals( "#39" )) && 
(!name.equals( "#x27" ))
            && (!name.equals("quot")) && (!name.equals( "#34" )) && 
(!name.equals( "#x22" ))
            ) {
[...]

Still a proper CDATA handling would be really great for the release anyway.

Kind regards

Ingo Struck

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