escaping does not work properly

[Rajic Zeljko]

Hi,

I'm currently experiencing a strange behaviour when using Xerces to serialize a 
XML document: for some reason the ">" character does not get escaped to ">" 
when adding it as attribute or element value.

To demonstrate what I mean I've attached a small Java Application. When running 
it, I receive the following output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testcase name="testcasename" time="19:00:12">
    <error type="This is the testcase description: a tag &lt;descriptiontag> !!"
>This is the error text with the &lt;errortag> !!</error>
</testcase>

Instead I'd expect to receive the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testcase name="testcasename" time="19:00:12">
    <error type="This is the testcase description: a tag &lt;descriptiontag%gt; 
!!"
>This is the error text with the &lt;errortag&gt; !!</error>
</testcase>


I've tried the application with a older version of Xerces, but also with the 
current 2.4.0. Both with the same result.

As I can't imagine to be the first to see this behaviour I guess that I must 
doing something wrong. So it would be nice if someone could point me to my 
mistake.

And by the way: is it possible to escape more characters than only "<>&' with 
Xerces or SAX in common? For example also escaping the [] characters?

Regards,
Zeljko

EscapeTest.java
Description: EscapeTest.java

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