Is there any way to do this for just the text inside my <Data>...</Data> tags? Elsewhere I do want the standard escaping.
Thanks - dave -----Original Message----- From: Maarten Coene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:42 AM To: David Thielen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] Need to set xml as Element text 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
