[jdom-interest] Form Feed character in CDATA section

Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Feb 26 09:10:51 PST 2004


At 10:57 AM -0600 2/26/04, GDIECKHAUS at TRANSENTRIC.COM wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I have a program that has a string that has a form feed character in it.
>I am using Jdom b8, and when i attempt to create a cdata section with the
>string, i get the error
>

This is completely illegal in both XML 1.0 and 1.1. The formfeed 
character cannot appear in text content in 1.0 and even in 1.1 it 
can't appear in a CDATA section. The problem is that your code is 
trying to create malformed XML. The probolem is not in JDOM.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo at metalab.unc.edu
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA



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