Handling xml strings with Axiom

[Amila Suriarachchi]

I wrote the following code to test another issue I came across.

 String xmlString = "<test>mytest</test>";

        OMFactory omFactory = OMAbstractFactory.getOMFactory();
        OMNamespace omNamespace = omFactory.createOMNamespace("
http://mynamespace","ns1";);
        OMElement omElement = omFactory.createOMElement("TestElement",
omNamespace);

        omElement.setText(xmlString);

        System.out.println("OMElement text ==> " + omElement.toString());

This out puts an xml string like this,

<ns1:TestElement xmlns:ns1="http://mynamespace
">&lt;test>mytest&lt;/test></ns1:TestElement>

Note that > is not encoded. is this a correct behavior? By looking at the
woodstox code I found that
it intensionally escapse > only if it is after an ]

for (; offset < len; ++offset) {
                    c = cbuf[offset];
                    if (c <= HIGHEST_ENCODABLE_TEXT_CHAR) {
                        if (c == '<') {
                            ent = "&lt;";
                            break;
                        } else if (c == '&') {
                            ent = "&amp;";
                            break;
                        } else if (c == '>') {
                            /* Let's be conservative; and if there's any
                             * change it might be part of "]]>" quote it
                             */
                            if ((offset == start) || cbuf[offset-1] == ']')
{
                                ent = "&gt;";
                                break;
                            }
                        } else if (c < 0x0020) {
                            if (c == '\n' || c == '\t') { // fine as is
                                ;
                            } else if (c == '\r') {
                                if (mEscapeCR) {
                                    break;
                                }
                            } else {
                                if (!mXml11 || c == 0) {
                                    throwInvalidChar(c);
                                }
                                break; // need quoting ok
                            }
                        }
                    } else if (c >= highChar) {
                        break;
                    }
                    // otherwise ok
                }

is there any reason for this?

thanks,
Amila.

-- 
Amila Suriarachchi
WSO2 Inc.
blog: http://amilachinthaka.blogspot.com/