Edwin,
Is that why I have to manually escape attribute text? Will this be
fixed at some point?
--Evan
Tom Doman wrote:
> Yes, generating entity references is certainly something I'd prefer to do.
> It'll save a LOT of size on my document not to mention readability.
> References to other definitions and types is a part of pretty much every
> RDF\OWL definition, usually several times per definition.
>
> Anyway, thank you very much Edwin for the suggestion. I tried it and it
> works as you expected. I went ahead and left the escapeText property at it's
> default since any time I set text, I would want the escapement to occur.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Doman
> Novell Inc.
>
>
>>>> "Edwin Dankert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/29/2006 3:00 AM >>>
>>>>
> The philosophy behind this is that entities are used to substitute text
> inside a document, mainly to support human entry of the text, however
> when generating the document programmatically, the developer can
> use the programming language to facilitate him in creating the document
> so there should not be a need for these entities and therefor dom4j's
> entity support for serialization is not very good.
>
> So, my recommendation would be not to try to generate Entities using
> dom4j, however if you really need to ...
>
> For elements you can set the 'escapeText' property as a work-around,
> this property however does not seem to work for attributes.
>
> So instead, you will have to override the escapeAttributeEntities method.
>
> I haven't tested the following but it should work:
>
> public class EscapedXMLWriter extends XMLWriter {
> protected String escapeAttributeEntities(String text) {
> return text;
> }
> }
>
> Regards,
> Edwin
>
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