Index: jakarta-velocity/src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node/ASTText.java
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-velocity/src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node/ASTText.java,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 ASTText.java
--- jakarta-velocity/src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node/ASTText.java	2001/03/19 18:53:52	1.7
+++ jakarta-velocity/src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser/node/ASTText.java	2001/08/01 10:23:03
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 
 public class ASTText extends SimpleNode
 {
-    private String text;
+    private char[] ctext;
 
     public ASTText(int id)
     {
@@ -86,17 +86,18 @@
     {
         Token t = getFirstToken();
 
-        text =  t.image;        
-       
+        String text = t.image;
         text = NodeUtils.specialText( t ) + t.image;
 
+        ctext = text.toCharArray();
+
         return data;
     }
 
     public boolean render( InternalContextAdapter context, Writer writer)
         throws IOException
     {
-        writer.write(text);
+        writer.write(ctext);
         return true;
     }    
 }