[castor-dev] XML String as attribute value

[Narinder Gaheer]

Title: Message

Hi all,

 

I want to marhsall and unmarshall an Object which has one of its attributes

returning an XML String. So here is the Java Object

 

public class foo{

      String bar;

 

      public foo(){}

 

      public void setBar(String barXML){

            bar = barXML;

      }

 

      public void getBar(){

            return bar;

      }

    

}

 

and I am doing :-

 

          foo = new foo();

          foo.setBar("<xml-string><content>My Content</content></xml-string>");

 

 

Mapping file :-

 

 <class name="foo">
        <field name="bar"
            type="string"
            <bind-xml name="bar" node="attribute"/>
        </field>
</class>

 

 

My questions are :-

 

1) I know that "<" , ">"  etc. are special XML characters. Will Castor marshalling replace

               such special characters in my bar String with Character entities like &lt; and &gt; etc. or I have to do it in my code.

 

2) Same question on the unmarshalling side. Will Castor replace Character entitites into resulting symbols?

 

I am using Castor 0.9.3.1.

 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Narinder