Hi,
how can I get JiBX to ignore HTML (and other) tags in elements?
The situation is as follows:
There are (lots of) JiBX binding elements like
<value style="element" name="description" field="descr" />
<value style="element" name="foo" field="bar" />
and all of the bound Java fields are of type java.lang.String.
In the XML, the "description" and "foo" (and so on) elements can contain e.g.
HTML tags like in
<description>
<html>
<head>
This is the header of an HTML description.
</head>
<body>
And this is the body of an HTML description.
</body>
</html>
</description>
or they can contain fancy substrings that look like tags like in
<description>
< | -)> This is a smiling chinese with a spikey chin.
</description>
Those tags must not be interpreted by JiBX, but instead, the whole contents of
the XML elements shall be stored without change in the corresponding String
fields (like it is defined in the binding definition).
This means, that the first example given shall lead to a String containing the
following:
<html>
<head>
This is the header of an HTML description.
</head>
<body>
And this is the body of an HTML description.
</body>
</html>
I do not want to further disassemble the Strings containing HTML (or fancy)
tags.
The approaches I found to deal with this situation like discussed in
http://www.mail-archive.com/jibx-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02079.html
seem quite complicated ("Include it in a CDATA section, hack the JiBX code, or
unmarshall it into DOM structure").
Isn't there a simpler way to let JiBX relax and simply store all the contents
of an XML element in a Java String (without looking for substrings that look
like XML tags)?
Of course, during marshalling, the contents of the Strings have to be filled in
the bound XML elements without change, too.
Maybe there could be an attribute like ignoresubtags="true" in the JiBX binding
definitions of a future release, if there is no simple solution to this
situation yet.
Thank you for your help,
Johannes
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