Re: escaping does not work properly

[Maksym Kovalenko]

Why in this xml example start tag of 'error' element doesn't end with '>'?
I mean attribute 'type' defined with some odd looking string but then starts text node and > to close 'error' element is missing...

Rajic Zeljko wrote:

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
  

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