[jdom-interest] / character in data

[Iain Darroch]

Hi,

I wish to store the full path to a program in XML

I do this with the following

...

<location>/users/myname/mydir</location>

....

However I get the following exception raised

org.jdom.IllegalNameException: The name "/users/myname/mydir" is not legal
for JDOM/XML elements: XML names cannot begin with the character "/".
        at org.jdom.Element.setName(Element.java, Compiled Code)
        at org.jdom.Element.<init>(Element.java, Compiled Code)
        at org.jdom.Element.<init>(Element.java, Compiled Code)


Has anyone else had the same problem?  As far as I was aware all parsers
whould allow this.  Does anyone have a solution?

many thanks

Iain

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