shaun roe 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>

That isn't XML. It's text that happens to have character entities in it.

> 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).

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///Peter