Marc- I don't know of a way to do achieve your goal in Castor, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
Looking through the Marshaller class though, I feel like you really want to be down at the XML serializer level. For example, when the serializer receives a call to start element "foo" with attribute "bar", just before it actually writes the output to a stream, you intercept the value of bar and replace it with <![CDATA[value of bar]]>. Anything higher up the chain I'm afraid will end up getting escaped by the serializer. Sounds like a job for AspectJ if I ever heard one :) Sorry I can't be of more help. Your post processing might be the easiest way to go. Stephen On 3/21/06, Marc Respass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to the list and just started using Castor. I'm impressed so > far but I've run into a problem. The party who has defined the XML > document demands that all values be wrapped in CDATA. Right now, I am > marshalling the object with Castor and then hacking the document by > calling getElementsByTagName(), pulling the value, creating a CDATA > section, removing the element's child, and appending the new CDATA > section. It would be cool if I could get the value wrapped in CDATA > automatically during the marshalling. I tried writing a > GeneralizedFieldHandler that would wrap the value like > > value = "<![CDATA[" + value + "]]>"; > > but that is so wrong and the first "<" gets escaped. I've look around > and tried lots of different things but I have been entirely > unsuccessful. Can anyone point me in the right direction to do this? > Is it possible or is my hack not really a hack so I should change my > method name from hackDocument() to fixUpDocument()? :) > > Thanks a lot > Marc > > ------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please > send an empty message to the following address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------- > >
