[dom4j-user] Special Encoding Issue

[Frank Sharpless]

Hello All,   I am trying to use some “special characters” for the value of an attribute. See the code below:        Document document = new DocumentHelper().parseText("<Data><ResultRow value=\"\"/></Data>");      Attribute att = (Attribute)document.selectSingleNode("/Data/ResultRow/@value");      att.setValue("&#62;");      System.out.println(att.getValue());      java.io.FileWriter out = new java.io.FileWriter("c:\\test.xml");      document.write(out);      out.flush();      out.close();      out = null;   The system.out.println line display the proper character “&#62;”. However when I attempt to print this data out to a file, something is encoding the “&” and replaces it with “&amp;” - I need the value element to remain “&#62;” not “&amp;#62;”. This is an example of the out file:   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Data><ResultRow value="&amp;#62;"/></Data>   Any help would be most appreciated. Many thanks in advance.   Frank Sharpless Manager, Application Development Paperhost.com, Inc. 770.998.9172.611