Re: Element weird behaviour ...

[steven . vanloon]

I'm doing the parsing through JDom which uses the Xerces parser. By the 
result I mean that after the parsing job, I get an XML element in memory, 
named STTM, that contains the text "&" instead of just an ampersand &. 
The strange thing is that if I use any other name than STTM for the 
element I get the correct result, namely only the ampersand. So, assume I 
would like to parse the following XML:

<ROOT>
        <STTM>&amp;</STTM>
        <sttm>&amp;</sttm>
</ROOT>

When I parse this XML and print the output I get something like this:

 Element='ROOT'
 Element='STTM', Text='&amp;'
 Element='sttm', Text='&'

This is no normal behaviour according to me!?!  The same goes for &lt; and 
&gt;, &apos; and &quot are handled correctly:

<ROOT>
        <STTM>&amp;&apos;&quot;&lt;&gt;</STTM>
        <sttm>&amp;&apos;&quot;&lt;&gt;</sttm>
</ROOT>

results in:

Element='ROOT'
Element='STTM', Text='&amp;'"&lt;&gt;'
Element='sttm', Text='&'"<>'


I already changed to using the latest version of Xerces (2.5.0) but it 
made no changes. Any ideas, suggestions, ... ??

Thanks,
Steven.







Elena Litani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
25/09/2003 17:06
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I get some strange things when I try to parse the next XML with the 
Xerces
> parser:
> 
> <STTM>&amp;</STTM>
> 
> The result is <STTM>&amp;</STTM> (just the same) instead of 
<STTM>&</STTM>.

The '<' and '&' characters must be escaped in character data using
predefined entities [1].

What do you mean by "the result"? Are you parsing using DOM/SAX and
looking at the document in memory? Are you using serializer (which one?)
and this is what you see in the output? 

By definition, serializer must escape '<' and '&' characters. However,
other predefined entities (&gt;, &apos;, and &quot;) maybe be used by
the serializer.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#character-data

Thank you,
-- 
Elena Litani / IBM Toronto

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