RE: [castor-user] Hinting XML Marshaller to use ![CDATA] ?

[Jez Nicholson]

Hi Mik,   I've wrestled with this one for an age. I refer you to an answer I got on the list yesterday to my email "easiest way to include arbitrary xml"....   OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat(Method.XML, "UTF-8", true); String[] cdata = {"html-tag","contents","question","text","feedback"}; format.setCDataElements(cdata); format.setNonEscapingElements(cdata); XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(new StringWriter(),format); ContentHandler handler = serializer.asContentHandler(); Marshaller marsh = new Marshaller(handler); marsh.setValidation(false); marsh.setMapping(mapping); marsh.marshal(obj); Would output your field contents non-escaped. An alternative could be to create a simple FieldHandler public class CDataFieldHandler extends AbstractFieldHandler {    /**   * uses reflection to retrieve the value then wraps   * it in a CDATA section   */  public Object getValue(Object object) throws IllegalStateException  {   FieldDescriptor f = getFieldDescriptor();   String fieldName = f.getFieldName();   Object value = PropertyUtils.getProperty(object,fieldName);   if (value==null)   {    value = "";   }   return "<![CDATA[" + value.toString() + "]]>";  } } Keith and co. please jump in if I am misguided. Regards,      Jez   -----Original Message----- From: Michael Thome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2005 16:25 To: user@castor.codehaus.org Subject: [castor-user] Hinting XML Marshaller to use ![CDATA] ? Is there a way to get the XML Marshaller to use a ![CDATA[...]] construct rather than standard escaping for specified fields/elements?  I realize that this is supposed to be an invisible choice, but the CDATA-escape is much more readable than &foo; when there are lots of escaped characters - in many cases, it is even considerably more compact. Thanks,     -mik -- Michael Thome BBN Technologies 10 Moulton St, Cambridge MA 02138 USA phone: +1 617 873 1853 ------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please send an empty message to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------