[jdom-interest] Outputting escaped entities in element text

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:43 AM -0500 10/3/02, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:


>>  Please don't apply this. This is simply wrong.
>
>Hmmm, so char. references are no longer allowed in XML documents?

They're not allowed in Java strings.

>>  It is completely contrary to the JDOM model, and mixes syntax with
>>  semantics in a very  damaging way.
>
>Yes it's contrary to the model, that's why it should *NOT* be checked into
>the CVS. But it is a solution to a specific problem that can be used today.

It's the wrong solution.
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