Hi David,
I think you should subclass org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter and override the escapeElementEntities(String text) method to not escape the <> characters and to convert your '\n' to the appropriate &#xxx
Take a look at the current implementation of that method:
http://www.dom4j.org/xref/org/dom4j/io/XMLWriter.html#1359
regards, Maarten
David Thielen wrote:
Hi;
Ok, this is a very weird request. And I know it violates how xml is supposed to work. But it’s a requirement of the SpreadsheetML format that Microsoft is using.
This format has:
<Data>blah blah blah</Data>
Where blah blah blah is the contents of a cell in the spreadsheet. Here is the weirdness. Let’s say all of the text is bold. Then the xml is:
<Data><B>blah blah blah</B></Data>
But if it is written as:
<Data>
<B>blah blah blah</B>
</Data>
Then the cell contents are “ \n<B>blah blah blah</B>\n “
How can I write this using dom4j? I figure I can create a separate rendering of the cell text – but I then have to be able to write it where the <> does not get converted to <>.
Again, I did not design this – Microsoft did. I just have to live with it.
??? – thanks - dave
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