[jdom-interest] Entities

[Alex Chaffee]

Todd O'Bryan wrote:

>
> The problem is that when I output the parsed document (using 
> XMLOutputter), I still have &s where I want just & characters. Is 
> there any way to turn off XMLOutputter's desire to replace the three 
> special characters (&, >, and <) with their entity values?
> 


Yes, there's a way to make it output illegal XML (XML declares "no raw 
ampersands").

Make a subclass and override the protected method 
escapeElementEntities(String).  You may also want to override 
escapeAttributeEntities(String).

  - Alex


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