Does this happen in all browsers, or just one? GWT uses the browser to
perform the XML document/node manipulation.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:34 AM, googelybear <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that GWT DOES escape the semicolon character but actually
> this is a valid XML character and should not be escaped according to
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-references and
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
>
> Here's a snippet of how this error can be reproduced:
> <code>
> public static String escapeXml(String xml) {
>                Document document= XMLParser.createDocument();
>                Text textNode= document.createTextNode(xml);
>                return textNode.toString();
>        }
> </code>
>
> calling this method with ";" yields "&semi;". Semi is not defined as a
> standard entity and thus produces errors in my backend.
>
> Is this really a bug in the GWT XML parser or is my escaping method
> wrong?
>
> thanks for any feedback,
>
> Dennis
>
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