Thanks Stephen,
I know I have looked at an XML serializer already but maybe I didn't
look far enough. For the sake of the list archive, though, here is
what I am doing now.
// find the element
// get its value into "val"
CDATASection cdata = document.createCDATASection(val);
if (cdata != null) {
element.removeChild(child);
element.appendChild(cdata);
}
Still feels like a hack to me but it is working and I need to move
on. I'd like to have a generic solution, of course. This is a really
specific solution so I'm going to continue to call it a hack.
Thanks again
Marc
On Mar 21, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Stephen Bash wrote:
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
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