shaun roe (shaun.roe@w...) wrote:
: a follow up with new problems from my previous post:

: I have xml encoded in a string with elements like <myElement/>

: e.g 

: <codeFragment> &lt;myElement&gt;some text&lt;/myElement&gt; 
: </codeFragment>

: I parse this in Xerces and I can see it has done the correct thing,
: but now I want to serialize the output so it **looks** like valid xml, 
: i.e.
: <codeFragment> <myElement>someText</myElement> </codeFragment>

: this doesnt happen; instead I get 

: <codeFragment> &lt;myElement>someText &lt/myElement> </codeFragment>

: I dont want to change the DOM model, I just want the serializer to 
: output text which has the "<" in it. Is there some way of stopping it 
: escaping the "<" ?

: note: unfortunately I am restricted to simple text in the node, I cannot 
: insert a CDATA. (not sure this would solve it anyway).


Is there some option to _not_ escape the text?  I know that using xalan
you can use an option (it's part of xlst) to not escape text.  Since xalan
is based on xerces, I wonder if it is xerces that has an option to do
this?

OR

Take your text after it is un-escaped and parse that a second time.  Now
take that small node tree and splice it into the original in place of the
text that contained the escaped < & >'s.  When the whole is serialized
then that part of the xml will be output with tags as you wish. ($0.10)

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