Antonio Gallardo wrote:
>
> Hi Carsten:
>
> I am not sure why we escape the chars in this way. I think it
> is part of the jexl convention, but don't believe me.
>
Hmm, what do you exactly mean? The chars are not escaped, but
the backslash is simply removed.
Or do you mean that e.g. jexl would fail if a backslash
is in an expression?
Carsten
>
> Carsten Ziegeler dijo:
> > I just found another "nice feature" of the JXTG/JXTT. It eats
> > backslashed out of your text! For example, if you read this
> XML by the
> > JXTG:
> >
> > <txt>\ha\llo</txt>
> >
> > The resulting XML is:
> >
> > <txt>hallo</txt>
> >
> > This feature is very nice if you use forms with fields that can
> > contain backslashed and you're running the JXTG after the forms
> > transformer!
> >
> > Anyways, the TextEvent subclass has a special handling for
> backslashes:
> > if (c == '\\') {
> > ch = in.read();
> > if (ch == -1) {
> > buf.append('\\');
> > } else {
> > buf.append((char)ch);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > I don't see any real sense in this (note that backslashes
> at the end
> > are not removed).
> >
> > If noone objects, I will remove this special handling.
> >
> > Carsten
> >
> > Carsten Ziegeler
> > Open Source Group, S&N AG
> > http://www.s-und-n.de
> > http://www.osoco.net/weblogs/rael/
> >
>
