Nicolas,
It seems you are not using anything specific to Xalan in your code at
http://pastebin.com/LfGpWMai, though I may be missing something.
This behavior, according to your code, is actually expected. You are
creating a text node with the value "—" and wanting to output that
in an XML file. In order to do this, the '&' must be escaped as "&"
in the output XML file. So the output is correct, though it is probably
not what you want. When read in by other XML parsers, your created XML
would contain an element called "div" with a text value of "—"
(which is what you told it to have).
You can tell the class responsible for writing out the document to no
longer escape special characters such as '&', though generally this is
not preferred unless you have no other choice, at least according to
best practices that I'm aware of. If you are reading in XML documents
(instead of building DOM from scratch like in your example) you should
also be able to tell the XML parser to not resolve entities in source
document.
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// this outputs <div>—</div> by telling StreamResult to disable
output escaping via
// a processing instruction in the source DOM
final DocumentBuilder builder =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
final Document document = builder.newDocument();
final Node pi =
document.createProcessingInstruction(StreamResult.PI_DISABLE_OUTPUT_ESCAPING,"");
final Node div = document.createElement("div");
document.appendChild(pi);
document.appendChild(div);
div.appendChild(document.createTextNode("—"));
final Transformer transformer =
TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
final Writer out = new StringWriter();
StreamResult sr = new StreamResult(out);
transformer.transform(new DOMSource(document), sr);
-----------
To disable entity resolving when reading in the source XML document, see
DocumentBuilderFactory.setExpandEntityReferences().
Entities and entity references can be quite tricky to work with, and you
must understand what is happening at each level of the XML processing,
from reading in the source XML, to running a transform on the XML, to
outputting the final result.
Aeris wrote:
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Hi,
I have a little problem with Xalan.
I use Transformer to create a HTML file from a Document.
But in generated HTML, all « & » in the document, which are parts of
already escaped HTML entities like « », are re-escaped by Xalan.
See this sample : http://pastebin.com/LfGpWMai
Instead of expected
<div>—</div>
I get
<div>&mdash;</div>
I search on doc and Google, but nothing found to disable escaping.
How I can do this ?
Thanks
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Nicolas VINOT
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Software Development
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