If you won't be searching against the XML in the database another option may be to save the XML as raw bytes and convert in to a string on the java side. This option provides the added benefit of allowing you to compress the XML which reduces the amount of bytes that has to be shuffled between the database and your app, plus it makes for better disk space usage --which is really an over statement because the cost of disk space is so cheap--.
Dane Foster ----- Original Message ----- From: "David D. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 13:31 Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] how to encode an entity with dom4j I was interested in what marks were available for TM myself and did some investigation. Based on the information at the link http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html iso-8859-1 does not support "TM" trade mark symbol. It appears that maybe the tool you are using is converting on the console display the binary equivalent. When you parse in the encoding, it will convert it to what your standard encoding is, thus a potential different map (i.e. a square or question mark looking character). I tried doing the (R) and (C) with no problems. They are valid iso-8859-1 characters. You may want to try putting int the outgoing XML the unicode for CP1252 (Windows character set) "™" to see if the display comes up the way you want. But your mileage may vary based on the native display text encoding. Not sure what to say other than verify the Unicode values and try adding it to the setText like. String registered = "\u00AE"; element.setText("My Mark"+registered); This will be converted to the correct "&#xxx;" number so it can travel over XML. Best Wishes! Dave Martin Gross wrote: > The application is Jakarta Struts based. When the form is submitted > the values are stored in Bean e.g. theItem and stored in the DOM tree: > > Element elem = getElementByIdAttribute (theItem.getId()); > log.trace(theItem.getHeadline()); > elem.element("headline").setText(theItem.getHeadline()); > > When everything is stored I write into a file with the following code: > > OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat( "", false, "iso-8859-1"); > FileWriter out = new FileWriter(file); > XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter( out, format ); > writer.write( doc ); > out.close(); > > Thanks, > Martin > > > >>Martin, > > >>When you say submit, what do you do? Can you provide snippets of the >>code? How do you "write" out the DOM tree? Are you using an >>org.dom4j.io.OutputFormat instance combined with the XmlWriter? > > >>More info please. ;-) > > >>Thanks, >>Dave > > >>Martin Gross wrote: >> >>>hi, >>> >>> this is probably a very basic question, but I still haven't found a >>> solution for it by browsing through the list archive. >>> >>> I have written a web application that generates some xml files with >>> iso-8859-1 encoding. in an dtd file I defined a entity >>> e.g. <!ENTITY trademark "™">. >>> >>> My XML file contains <headline>Test &trademark;</headline> >>> >>> When I parse the document for reading everything works fine. The >>> trademark symbol is properly displayed in the form field of my >>> browser form. >>> >>> But when I submit my form, the trademark symbol is replaced by an >>> question mark: <headline>Test ?</headline> >>> >>> If I write 'Test &trademark;' into the form field the following is >>> written into the xml file: <headline>Test &trademark;</headline> >>> >>> How do I get the entity into the xml file with dom4j? >>> >>>best regards, >>>martin >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best >>>thread debugger on the planet. 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