RE: Less-than reserved character sanity check...

[Jesse Pelton]

If you append a text node (or set an attribute, depending on where you're storing you field data) with a value like "1 < 3" and use DOMWriter to serialize, what happens? A snippet of your code and a sample of your output would probably be helpful. From: Styduhar, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Less-than reserved character sanity check... Opening the file in XMLSpy (or any other viewer) generally causes an error though.  I am using the DOMWriter but I can’t save the XML file (and it won’t validate) with that “<” in the character data.   -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Pelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Less-than reserved character sanity check...   Assuming you're letting Xerces do the serialization (by using DOMWriter, for instance), just include '<' in your character data. Xerces translates characters into the corresponding character entities as needed.   From: Styduhar, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Less-than reserved character sanity check... I have an XML file which needs to have a “<” (less than) character in a data field.  I have put the less-than character in the XML as “&lt;” which is how I’ve always done it.  However – after Xerces parses the document, the string is transformed into “lt;”… and the rest of my software doesn’t handle that.  Have I lost my mind?  How am I supposed to encode greater than and less than symbols?   Thanks, Chris