I know that you can also write it with single slashes and it works :
<param-value>c:/tomcat/webapps/Root/JSPbook/Chap04/sounds</param-value>
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#> -----Original Message-----
#> From: William Brogden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
#> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 10:09 AM
#> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#> Subject: Re: properties
#>
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#>
#>
#> Jon Skeet wrote:
#> >
#> > [In web.xml]
#> >
#> > >
#> <param-value>c:\\tomcat\\webapps\\Root\\JSPbook\\Chap04\\soun
#> ds</param-value>
#> >
#> > Surely those backslashes don't need to be escaped, do
#> they? XML doesn't
#> > care about \ and I don't believe Java itself does either.
#> >
#> > If this were a properties file it would be a different
#> matter, but I'm
#> > pretty sure you can just use
#> >
#> >
#> <param-value>c:\tomcat\webapps\Root\JSPbook\Chap04\sounds</pa
#> ram-value>
#> >
#> > Anyone have more info?
#> >
#> > Jon
#>
#> As I recall, thats the way Java writes a String like that when
#> you do a Properties save( stream, header) method call.
#>
#> --
#> WBB
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