DO NOT REPLY [Bug 49471] Add CDATA parameter to XmlLayout

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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49471

--- Comment #2 from mattgerl...@msn.com 2010-06-20 17:01:07 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you elaborate on the motivation?  Is it to reduce the size of the
> resulting string, to reduce the memory footprint of a DOM document, to 
> increase
> parsing speed?  If so, do you have any metrics on the potential benefits.
> 
> The XSLTLayout in the extras companion uses the XSLT serializer in the JDK and
> should always produce valid XML document entities and is highly unlikely to
> produce CData sections.  However, I don't know any metrics of its performance
> relative to the XMLLayout.
> 
> There are known scenarios where the XMLLayout can produce invalid XML, but 
> been
> hesitant to add any overhead to detect for those scenarios and work around it.

The motivation is I am using the XMLLayout for logging messages that I know are
valid xml. Without the CDATA it is much more straight forward to extract the
information I want.

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