[jdom-interest] Forcing a CDATA section
Paul Libbrecht
paul at activemath.org
Wed Mar 31 08:26:59 PDT 2010
I strongly believe the CDATA class serves that purpose.
And, honestly, if it doesn't, it would be a child-game to modify the
XMLOutputter to do so.
paul
Le 31-mars-10 à 17:22, Richard Gaywood a écrit :
> Hi there.
>
> I am using JDOM to integrate with an API provided to me by a big
> travel firm. My integration was working fine for my test cases, but
> failed QA when the tester tried something different. I've now been
> told by the travel firm that instead of sending
>
> <Key>N GBTM00423004Z</Key>
> I need to send
> <Key><![CDATA[N GBTM00423004Z]]></Key>
>
> Googling has only turned up flamewars on this mailing list about
> this issue, and I cannot see anything about it in the JDOM API docs.
> So I ask: is there currently a way to force JDOM to use a CDATA
> section for a given tag, even where it shouldn't really be necessary?
>
> And before anyone starts another flamewar, I know this is dumb, I
> know this isn't clean XML, but the travel firm is a big
> multinational with a hojillion employees that makes zillions of
> dollars a year. My employer is a small ecommerce outfit. I cannot
> make them change this, as much as I would like to. It could be
> worse; one of their competitors we wrote a connector to only
> supports socket connections that take EDIFACT encoded strings, and
> they ship us a closed-source binary C library to enable us to talk
> to the service. Integrating Java into that was a barrel of laughs.
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