Stephen's right, characters like < > & must be encoded (escaped) as < or
> or &.
Joe your other option is to use a CDATA section which can include < > etc
<![CDATA[
if((people.size() > 15) || (people == null))
]]>
James
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen C. Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] Getting a comment, parsing > < "
> Joe,
>
> I couldn't find it anywhere, but I think you have to use ;> (or
> something like that) for the ">" sign within an element's value. Might
> even be in the w3c docs.
>
> HTH
> steve
>
> Joe wrote:
>
> > Hi I need to have something like this in my document:
> >
> > <...>
> > <Clause>
> > if((people.size() > 15) || (people == null))
> > </Clause>
> > </...>
> >
> > However xml spec states that you can't have < (or > is
> > it??? which one it is doesn't matter).
> >
> > So I assume dom4j wont parse this. So I thought I
> > would do
> >
> > <Clause>
> > <!--if((people.size() > 15) || (people == null)) -->
> > </Clause>
> >
> > then use clauseElement.getText() and strip leading
> > <!-- and trailing -->. But is there a way to use
> > something like clauseElement.getComment().getText()
> > ??? I couldn't find it in the JDocs. Just neater and
> > simpler.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
> >
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